In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara ...

While the British government was dealing with a country ... to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the war change life ...

Set in 1943, Operation Mincemeat follows two British intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, as they hatch an elaborate plan to mislead Nazi Germany. With the stakes at their ...

Wrong, you've actually been swallowing WW2 propaganda. Film by Max Tobin ... for our clocks changing twice a year. For the British cellist, the cello isn't just an instrument, it's a companion ...

Find out if you would have what it takes to be part of the crew. WW2: How did the British plan to celebrate VE Day? documentWW2: How did the British plan to celebrate VE Day? VE Day or Victory in ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.

often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was no British-invented fiction In 1818 the rani of ...

If you're a devotee of gripping war dramas on the small screen, Mussolini: Son Of The Century could be your next binge-watch. NOW has just unveiled a full-length trailer for a new period drama ...

Propaganda videos by the militant group the Islamic State show people claiming to be Australian, British and even American. And now, the execution of James Foley by a man with a British accent has ...

However, many of the practices at the Kumbh Mela are recent innovations in Hinduism, the result of colourful turbulence in North India under the Mughals and British over the last three centuries.