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Theatre: The Wipers Times by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman

May 08, 2017 Seema Syeda Articles, Modern, Slider, WWI 0

‘The War is not funny, Sir.’ – Colonel Howfield. ‘I’ve a feeling that may be the point.’ – General Mitford. Seema Syeda reviews Ian Hislop and Nick...

Churchill’s Great Escape

Apr 04, 2017 Seema Syeda Articles, Modern, Slider 0

Patrick Boniface examines the lives of history’s most daring wartime captives. In November 1899, the 25-year-old Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was travelling in an armoured train transiting...

Passchendaele centenary commemorations

Feb 20, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, WWI 0

The UK Government is holding two commemorative events in Ypres, Belgium, to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres), fought during the First World War. Raging...

Great Escapes: Roger Bushell

Jan 13, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, Slider, WWII 0

Patrick Boniface examines the lives of history’s most daring wartime captives. Roger Joyce Bushell was born on 30 August 1910 in Springs, Transvaal, in South Africa. His parents had moved to South...

Blitzed: drugs in Nazi Germany

Dec 09, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Books, Modern, Slider, WWII 0

Hitler almost died of a cocaine overdose, and the Wehrmacht’s blitzkrieg was powered by methamphetamine. These are just two of the areas of investigation in Blitzed, Norman Ohler’s study of the...

Shifting Sands: Lawrence of Arabia and the Great Arab Revolt

Dec 09, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Galleries, Modern, Museums, Slider, WWI 0

Shifting Sands is an exhibition about T E Lawrence, probably known to most of us as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. The title inevitably conjures up pictures of desert sands whipped up into fierce...

Mussolini’s secret time-capsule

Nov 24, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, News, Slider, WWII 0

Classics scholars Hans Lemers and Bettina Reitz-Joosse have produced an critical edition and translation of a forgotten Latin text that reveals the ideological intricacies of Italian dictator Benito...

MUSEUM REVIEW: National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, USA

Oct 28, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, Museums, Slider, WWI 0

The name of this stunning museum is a bit of a misnomer for, if anything, it is not national but international in its scope – a fact that is certainly appropriate for the subject matter. Located on...

BEHIND THE IMAGE: COSSACK BAY, BALAKLAVA, 1855 BY ROGER FENTON

Oct 28, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Behind The Image, Modern, Slider 0

This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack Bay, Balaklava, and taken during...

World’s only portrait signed by Churchill displayed

Oct 13, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, News, Slider, WWII 0

The only portrait that Winston Churchill ever signed has gone on public display for the first time. It was painted by artist Paul Trevillion in 1955. Born in 1934, Paul was a schoolboy during the...