Roger Hudson

Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of a locomotive taken during the American Civil War by one of Mathew Brady’s team.

Roger Hudson sheds light on an 1898 image of US soldiers fighting alongside Cubans to end Spanish rule on the Caribbean island.

Roger Hudson describes the destruction during the Paris Commune of the memorial to Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz in 1805.

Roger Hudson takes a roadside view of the automobiles about to embark on the arduous, 22,000-mile journey.

Roger Hudson explains a photographic panorama, taken at the beginning of the Second Afghan War, of the ancient and forbidding fortress of Bala Hissar.

A hilltop view of a smouldering city, following the devastating earthquake of April 18th, 1906.

A photograph of shipbuilders working on the liner Queen Mary taken in 1935 tells a wider story, by Roger Hudson.

Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of an Edwardian excursion to the sites at Giza around 1910.

Roger Hudson examines a photograph of July 1909, which captures the early 20th-century vogue for balloon racing.

Roger Hudson tells the story behind a gathering of glamorous movie stars in Washington DC in October 1947.