An exploration into colonial ‘Emergencies’, artefacts raided from Ghana in the 19th century and Royal Logistics Corps soldiers’ sporting achievements

Why do civilisations that dominated their epoch fail? In an era of autocracy, climate change, the rise of AI and a first-hand understanding of how deadly pandemics can be, it’s a question that seems p

On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h

Exhibition of the week Wes Anderson: The Archives ...

Spanning the 1920s to 1970s, Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape, at Firstsite in Colchester, examines the evolution of abstract art during periods of sweeping social and political

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the