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Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the nation-states that were once nation-empires. The 1960s ...
Observer

Afghanistan’s War Rugs Weave a Knotty History at the British Museum

War rugs blur the line between artifact and artwork, offering a form of vernacular expression that questions authorship, intention and audience. © The Trustees of ...
The New York Times

Looking Past the Gadgets, and Into Spies’ Minds

There are plenty of crowd-pleasing tools and weapons in a London exhibition about espionage. But spying is about more than cool stuff. By Rosa Lyster The critic Rosa Lyster saw “Spies, Lies and ...

War museum mascot Scramble is the cat's whiskers

Scramble the cat, the mascot of the Kent Battle of Britain Museum, has a worldwide fanbase with some visitors saying they ...

Falklands War - only captured Pucará aircraft to be flown in UK finds permanent Yorkshire home

It was one of the spoils of the Falklands War – an aircraft which took part in missions against British forces on the ground ...