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Bernie Brooks , March 13th, 2021 10:08 Roy Wilkinson talks to Bernie Brooks about his serialised "non-nonfiction" book Dark Lustre, the path of most resistance, the predatory capitalism of modelmaking, and more "I've got a few visual prompts here," announces Roy Wilkinson. "It's going to be a multimedia extravaganza," he says as he waves a brochure in front of his webcam. We've been chatting about museums and museum funding for the better part of a half hour – the pamphlet in his hand relates to one in Birmingham. We're meant to be talking about Dark Lustre, his ongoing, serialised "non-no...

Sunderland illustrator with autism praised by Boris Johnson for creating charity aviation book Jack Berry, 14, has exercised his passion for planes by compiling his lockdown drawings into a book Get the latest Sunderland news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your righ...

Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly’s classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind. From 1940 to 1943 battles raged back and forth as one side or the other gained the upper hand, only to lose it again. Often the obsolescent British armour was outnumbered by the Italians or outgunned by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, and frequently it suffered from the ineptitudes of higher command. Cyril Joly’s first-hand na...

PARIS – He hunches at the dining room table, putting the finishing touches on his miniature World War II tank. Deep in concentration, he keeps h ...

BBC News Published image copyrightRod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press image captionBefore it can fly again, each part of the four-engine plane needs to be stripped-down and checked It might just be the largest aircraft model kit in the world, but needs no small tubes of glue and is not a toy. Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre's Lancaster bomber - known as Just Jane - is three years into a 10-year restoration project to get it airborne. This year, the rear fuselage has been stripped down, and its parts laid out in the hangar. Photographed from above, it "looks like an Airfix kit would in the pack...