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An illustration shows five women in colourful headscarves sewing a large piece of cloth with soldiers and horses on it

Michael Wood on women's contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry

A painting showing a black beast biting the leg of an orange man dressed in a loincloth

What have the Etruscans ever done for us?

A black and white photograph shows two men standing with their faces very close together. They both have serious expressions on their faces and are staring down the lens of the camera. Across the bottom are the words KING & CONQUEROR

The wrong moustache in the Battle of Hastings

An illustration of a woman in a gold and red dress walking on a tightrope while balancing a pair of scales on her head. The scales hold an angel on one side and a devil on the other. Behind her on the tightrope, there is a cat. Below her, there is a town and a factory, with some houses submerged in water

Michael Wood on lessons on good government from medieval Siena

Many brightly coloured teacups with triangular handles sit on top of a white table. To the left, one of them is being picked up. The person is wearing a green bracelet on the arm they are using to hold the cup

Designs for life: the lasting impact of Art Deco

Paint your own pot, like an ancient Etruscan

John Singer Sargent and his scandalous portrait of 'Madame X'.

John Singer Sargent and the scandalous Madame X portrait that set the Gilded Age alight

Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners"

Flower power: how plants transformed the lives of 17th-century women

Two men dressed in Tudor clothes stand next to one another against a green curtain backdrop. Between them are several items, including a globe, a hymnbook and a lute

Tudors in turmoil: deciphering Hans Holbein’s masterwork The Ambassadors

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs

Video podcastMichelangelo: life of the week

The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know

Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain

American Gothic by Grant Wood

QuizArt decades

Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know

Drag: a British history

Painting

The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity

The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?

Cities that turbocharged art history

Video podcastThe Pre-Raphaelites: everything you wanted to know

How art brought down the East India Company

John Chu standing in front of a portrait

General History

My life in historyDr John Chu, senior national curator at the National Trust

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel

What great paintings sayThe Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

Frida Kahlo painting

Who was Frida Kahlo?Her life and legacy

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art