By John Dong

In English language scholarship, the military performance of late Imperial China often conjures
up images of men in tiger pyjamas armed with scimitars and shields with grotesque and garish
faces painted on them, or perhaps Manchu Bannermen drawing back dusty arrows on their
composite bows unchanged for hundreds of years. These, as scholar Jane Elliott...

By Nic Fields

Strong characters are, as a rule, rough, disagreeable and aggressive.

Charles de Gaulle, Le Fils de l’epée

Hoplites depicted on a globular arýballos c. 625 BCE, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Antikensammlung, inv. 2001.330 (ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons/ CC-BY-SA-4.0)

In choosing to study t...

By Kevin Wright

‘The brave ones shoot bullets, the crazy ones shoot film’

(Joe Longo, World War Two USAAF motion picture cameraman)

Photographic and film images are a powerful language, and those from wartime are even more so. In the run-up to the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, the Combat Cameramen of the United States Army...