A collection of English seaside postcards collected by German tourists before the Second World War, confiscated by Hitler and used to plan the Nazi invasion of Britain have recently been unearthed.

Hope, circa 1930: Home to the claim of the biggest watermelons in the world, Hope held its first annual Water Mellon Festival in 1926. In what might have been a parade the Hope Brick Works was also ...

The city of Syracuse has gone through many changes in its history, once a resort town along Onondaga Lake, trains running down the middle of the street and the epicenter of salt production. Salina ...

What’s your best ever eBay find? A pair of pre-loved designer shoes at a quarter of RRP? An old record they don’t stock at your local store? For Trudy Shillum, it was something extra special; a pair ...

Postcards are often dismissed as ephemera and not always given the credit they deserve. Admittedly, modern postcards are often mass produced and not always very interesting, but early editions were ...

At the beginning of January, the Smithsonian in Washington DC uploaded its entire Asian collection online. Its Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M Sackler Gallery, which hold 40,000 items of Asian ...

Before social media, they were social media. Postcards from the early to mid-20th century were the Instagram posts and tweets of their time. They told visual stories. You could only write a certain ...