Around Regent’s Park, the venue of the art fair, the making of double agents and sabotage plans was once commonplace.

As the Luftwaffe lost control of the air to the numerically superior Allies, the Stuka was one of the first aircraft to suffer the German Air Force’s reversal of fortunes. It was slow, under armoured ...

What comparisons between Anne Frank's fate and the current campaign of mass deportations illuminate—and obscure.

“Curious people,” according to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, “had the right to exhibit a controlled disrespect ...

In her second novel, the Spanish writer María Agúndez raises the issues surrounding a profession that is still taboo in a ...

In the history of art, few works have exerted such a dark and universal magnetism as Isle of the Dead by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, a true cultural phenomenon that transcended museums to embed ...

From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey’s bars into symbols of American ...

A chronicler of the 20th century, from her surrealist experiments with Man Ray to gripping photos from World War II, Lee Miller put her unique stamp on all of her work, as shown at the Tate Britain.