Once known for its lacemaking factories, Nottingham has reinvented itself as a centre of role-playing games. Games Workshop – maker of Warhammer 40,000 – is a multibillion-pound behemoth, and it sustains a whole ecosystem.

Creativity in wartime, a Swedish mission to rescue Holocaust victims and tours of an iconic British warship

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows

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ARTEFACT OF WAR