In Focus

Roger Hudson sheds light on an 1898 image of US soldiers fighting alongside Cubans to end Spanish rule on the Caribbean island.

Roger Hudson explains a photographic panorama, taken at the beginning of the Second Afghan War, of the ancient and forbidding fortress of Bala Hissar.

A hilltop view of a smouldering city, following the devastating earthquake of April 18th, 1906.

Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of an Edwardian excursion to the sites at Giza around 1910.

Peering through the pines, a German cycle company of the First World War is captured on camera. Roger Hudson explains.

A famous vessel from an unfamiliar perspective.

Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of Enoch Powell campaigning in his Wolverhampton seat in 1970.

Chairman Mao photographed attempting to swim the River Yangtze in July 1966.