Special Operations Executive agents operating in South-East Asia during the Second World War used overshoes like these to cover their tracks. Strapped under the wearer’s shoes …

Arischer Zahnarzt translates from German as ‘Aryan dentist’. Although IWM doesn’t know too much about the exact story of this sign, made most likely at some point in the 1930s or 40s in the city of Karslruhe, the meaning of the object is pretty clear …

The current civil war in Yemen is a humanitarian crisis. Aside from the violence and destruction of the conflict, inflation and access to of food, water and healthcare are having direct physical and psychological effects right now on the country’s men, women and children. These worn Yemeni Rial …

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George drew this doodle on a blotter pad at the Palace of Versailles, during the armistice negotiations at the end of the First World War …

Between 1940 and 1944, the annual Bastille Day (14 July) military parade to mark France’s national holiday wasn’t able to take place in Paris …