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War art is often associated with male heroics – sketches dashed off under fire, or epic battlefield paintings filled with flags and explosions. Yet the value of women’s war art is that it helps captur

We ended last month looking at the soldier’s pocket books of the 19th century. Sadly very few of these documents survive. They are NOT included in any Army papers that have been stored over the years.

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

Victoria Taylor Publisher: Head of Zeus Web: www.headofzeus.com ISBN: 9-781-8045-4999-5 Hardback: 432 pages RRP: £25.00 From the late 1970s up until the 1990s, the reviewer regularly interviewed and c

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind