Author: Lucinda Gosling

During the First World War a knitting craze swept across Britain, as women everywhere wanted to kit out their Tommies with socks, mittens, balaclav...

For the first half of the twentieth century, the artist Fortunino Matania captured some of the worlds most memorable and iconic moments. From the s...

William Heath Robinson remains one of Britains best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase its a...

In the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of 'going abroad' was born. Beautiful Mediterranean towns, the luxurious spas of Mittel-Europe and the go...

The declaration of war in August 1914 was to change Britain and British society irrevocably as conflict came to dominate almost every aspect of civ...

The much-loved Captain Bruce Bairnsfather was the most popular cartoonist of the First World War, who captured the spirit and stoicism of the typic...