The women of war

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D

Extreme photography: WAAF trainees practise in gas masks ...

At 11pm on Monday 31 May 1915, those Londoners who were not already in bed would soon be so. As the hubbub of the city died down, others who had been enjoying the capital’s entertainments were making

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry

The German army is often depicted as an epic, unstoppable machine. There’s no doubt that, at the outbreak of the First World War, it was the most formidably organised military force on the planet – bu