End times

Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows

Exhibition of the week Hawai‘i: a kingdom crossing ...

Creativity in wartime, a Swedish mission to rescue Holocaust victims and tours of an iconic British warship

Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

Sometimes, a single narrative comes to dominate how we remember a year. So it is with 1776. This, as every history lover knows, was the date that the American colonies declared their independence, beg

Best books… Ian Leslie The author and journalist ...