Forrest Gump-type characters who manage to be present at an extraordinary number of major historical events abound in epic fiction. “Fighting for the Empire”, a new history by journalist David Worsfold, published next week, tells the remarkable story of a true figure who lived such a life, touching many of the most significant moments in […]

Following the success of his two abundantly illustrated and era-evoking books about the styles of the 1940s and 1950s, fashion aficionado Mike Brown returns to define the decade that gave birth to modernity.  “The 1960s Look” recreates the trends and revolutions in clothes and accessories, hair, figure and makeup that made the swinging sixties so unlike […]