These days, we don’t give colour photography a second thought. It’s everywhere. From the high-res selfies on your phone to vintage film simulations on Instagram, colour has become so normal, so ever-present, that it’s easy to forget just how long it took for photography to get there, and how mind-blowing those early colour images must have seemed. Back in the early 20th century, when someone first saw a colour photograph, it wasn’t just impressive, it was magical. The colour

In the early years of the Cold War, the CIA dreamed of a Caribbean sweep, one bullet for Trujillo, another for Castro. Only one found its...

In the summer of 1943, as Allied forces plotted the downfall of Hitler and Mussolini, a little-known episode played out in the Caribbean....