The samurai’s history and legacy, Angela Merkel’s 21st-century military and a new aviation festival

When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Army numbered just over one million men, comprising both the regular forces and the part-time Territorial Army. The National Service (Armed

There’s no shortage of great picks at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands, including a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a pastel portrait by Dora Maar and two sections of 4th-century Roman mosaics

A new exhibition at the British Museum explores the mythmaking of Japan’s feudal warriors

Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Drawing into ...

THERE are times when saying ‘I told you ...