Collection: Special Collections - Loan

As she approached the age of 70, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a small sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern High...

Explore a selection of previously unpublished images documenting the Southern region's electric traction.

The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defence of the UK and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). This first volume looks chronologically at every ai...

The story of the Falklands War was written by observers, but not yet by someone who fought on the ground. Crispin Black, who was platoon commander and went on to become a Chatham House fellow and Cambridge MPhil, has written this first-hand history aided by other troops and commanding officers (n...