In Focus

A photograph taken during the Great Depression prompts Roger Hudson to re-evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Roger Hudson describes advances in British military aviation technology in the years before the Second World War.

Prisoners of war are driven to their execution in a harrowing image from 1950.

Roger Hudson details the rebuilding of the world’s first theme park in south London in 1853.

Charles de Gaulle delivered his first speech from London on the anniversary of Waterloo.

A letter published in our July 2015 issue.

Roger Hudson detailes how 122,000 French troops were evacuated from Dunkirk to Britain in May 1940.

A photograph of 1867 which shows the construction of one of the glories of Victorian architecture.

Roger Hudson visits the Belfast shipyard in 1911, where the Titanic and her sister ships, Britannic and Olympic were constructed.

Roger Hudson on a photograph taken in the Krupp works, Essen in 1861, signalling the arrival of a new industrial force in Europe.