People in history

South Polar Times
[30th January 2012]

The Folio Society, with the Royal Geographical Society, the British Library and the Scott Polar Research Institute, has published the first facsimile of all 12 volumes of the Captain Scott's South Polar Times. Here are some examples...

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© H Ponting photograph, Canterbury Museum New Zealand
Scott's Last Expedition
[16th January 2012]

A new exhibition of scientific specimens and artefacts belonging to Captain Scott and his Antarctic team opens at the Natural History Museum, London, this month. We bring you some of the fascinating objects on display

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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Imagined Lives
[12th December 2011]

Fourteen portraits from the 16th and 17th centuries, once thought to depict famous sitters, are now on display at the National Portrait Gallery. We bring you a selection of the paintings on show

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© British Library
How we first learnt to swim
[3rd December 2011]

The first handbook on how to swim was the brainchild of an eccentric ‘crypto-Catholic’ with a liking for controversy. Nicholas Orme surveys an ambitious visual guide designed to tempt Tudor gents into the water

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© History to Herstory
History to Herstory
[21st November 2011]

An archive of some 80,000 documents and images, hosted by the University of Huddersfield, exploring the role of Yorkshire women in history is now online. We bring you a selection of some of the resources available

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© Trustees of the British Museum
Warriors of the Plains
[17th November 2011]

An exhibition of Native North American objects is now on display at Ulster American Folk Park. Here are some of the remarkable pieces on display

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© Ally Carmichael
Dickens and London
[7th November 2011]

A new exhibition focusing on the relationship between Charles Dickens and London opens at the Museum of London next month. Here are a handful of the objects on display

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© Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park
The First Actresses
[2nd November 2011]

A new exhibition is now open at the National Portrait Gallery, examining the stories of some of Britain's first actresses in the 17th and 18th centuries. We bring you some of the portraits on display

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© The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
Children and War
[24th October 2011]

A new exhibition examining the impact of war on children from the Oxfordshire area over the years is now on display at The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock. We bring you some of the objects and images on display

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Shepherd with his Dogs, Hortobágy, Rudolf Balogh, c 1930 © Hungarian Museum of P
Images of Hungary in the 20th century
[13th June 2011]

A new exhibition of works by 20th-century Hungarian photographers opens at the Royal Academy of Arts this month. We bring you some of the unique images

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