Political cartoons of the past could alter a party’s fortunes. their threads of influence still remain

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At the bottom of Cardiff ’s Queen Street, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan stands rendered in bronze, his far-seeing gaze unbroken by shoppers and seagulls. The statue is a tribute to the Labour politician who man

Could lessons from the last great conflict help the democratic world triumph over the rise in autocratic power?

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025 takes us to 1948 and a change in railway ownership

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying