Gallery

Vintage Astro lava lamp from the 1960s

50 years of the lava lamp

Graffiti crosses found in churches

Church graffiti

A portrait of Russian queen Catherine the Great

In pictures: Catherine the Great

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?

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