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From disastrous beginnings to heroic triumph, this exhibition comprehensively covers the Second World War Burma campaign

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

On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical

It has become fashionable today for critics of major western museums to call for a ‘reckoning’ or ‘coming to terms’ with the imperialist and racist histories of some institutions. This approach is roo

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