Arroyo drums

Before the sun rose over the windswept pampas on the morning of 20 September 1835, the stillness of Porto Alegre was broken by the thunder of hooves and gunfire. A band of rebels launched a daring ass

To mark VJ Day 80, Fiona Bruce focuses on some touching family treasures

This William IV silver timepiece and its owner survived the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava

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The piece I’d never part with

Digitised records for British soldiers before about the middle of the 19th century are relatively rare; the exceptions are surviving pension records, the musters from the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) a