Gallery

An example of an anti-Suffragette postcard from the early 20th century.

Anti-Suffragette postcards

Pieces from the Lewis Chessmen, some of the earliest chessmen to survive.

In pictures: what are the Lewis Chessmen?

Press photographers were invited to Buckingham Palace on the day that the royal engagement between Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, was announced, in July 1947. Image: The Royal Collection. (© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2011)

Prince Philip at 90

A 17th chart or map shows reefs and hazards to ships.

The notorious Captain Kidd

A painting from a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. 'The Cult of Beauty' explores the 19th-century artistic movement of Aestheticism.

The cult of beauty

Photograph of two men pulling a mobile disinfection unit.

The filthy reality of everyday life

A historical image from the iron and steel industry in Teeside

Industrial revolution

175 years of iron and steel