Barbara Goalen was a housewife and war widow who captured the eye of couturiers Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga.
A new Sky History docu-drama, The Lost Women Spies, uncovers the incredible stories of the brave women who were recruited as ...
A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
The Raffles London at The OWO opened in September 2023 in one of the city's most magnificent historical landmarks, marking a ...
Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...
In 2012 Alan Hillgarth, Man of War, written by Duff Hart-Davis, was published. In the book, Hart-Davis described Hillgarth’s ...
An assembly framework and video to commemorate 'VE Day' on 8 May and to consider what life was like in the UK in the years ...
Innovation involves a shift in direction, a change in perspective. An awareness of noticing what was often plain sight.
By and large, however, the book keeps a polite distance from gender specifics. Long stretches pass without any mention of men ...
"Some of the kids never stopped crying, not from pain, but from fear and loneliness." These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time ...
Just as Northern Ireland’s first education minister and others legitimised Hitler in the 1930s, much of the media and ...
Most of us have whiled away a pleasant afternoon browsing the impressionists at the Museum of Fine Arts, or pausing between portraits to appreciate the garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.