The big picture

Sixteen-year-old Clifford Harris died on RMS Titanic because he was ‘just’ a member of the crew. He was a bell boy, earning £2 for the voyage, one of the youngest workers on board when the Titanic sai

I was very interested to read Nicola Johnson’s article exploring the world of stokers in your January 2026 issue. My great grandfather, John Thomas Gray, was a stoker on the HMS Indomitable during the

The annual National Historic Ships UK Photography Competition offers a window into our maritime past and how it touches the present day

My February issue of HistoryExtra magazine arrived today and I was fascinated to see the cover image informing readers of “Lucy Worsley’s hunt for a London serial killer”. The image (below) itself see

By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i