War and conflict
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Our finest forever: Britain’s World War Two nostalgia
Peter Mitchell on the great national myth of World War Two
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From colonialism to fascism: A history of Spain’s elite forces
Uma Arruga i López explains how the violence used by Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War was shaped by their earlier colonial endeavours.
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Bodies and bombs in Peshawar
Sanaa Alimia examines how repeatedly witnessing the body being ‘unmade’ in bomb blasts results in a sustained and collective trauma
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Making a killing from the peace
The silver anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is being celebrated in Belfast this week, but a booming arms industry shows the habit of political violence is hard for some to kick, writes Pádraig Ó Meiscill
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Generation prep and the rise of the private bunker industry
Bunkers are not new, writes Bradley Garrett, but a booming global market suggests a new age of anxiety has arrived
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Navigating the apocalypse through popular culture
From plague and pandemics to zombies and ‘cli-fi’, apocalyptic narratives have long reflected and shaped the anxieties of our age, write Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska
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Peter Kennard: pictures for peace
Peter Kennard reflects on a career focused on creating anti-war art, from documenting protests to dissecting nuclear weapons
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