In Focus

A Splendid Little War

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

In Focus: Kabul 1879

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

San Francisco Burns

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

A Trip to the Sphinx

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