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Victorian

How art brought down the East India Company . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Chu standing in front of a portrait
General History

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

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

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

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Tudor

What great paintings say The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

Frida Kahlo painting
20th Century

Who was Frida Kahlo? Her life and legacy

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.
General prehistory

Video 5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779.
Period

What great paintings say Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779

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General ancient history

Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete
Renaissance

The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance

Two-Penny Whist, published January 11, 1796, James Gillray (English, 1756-1815), published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818), England, Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper, 231 × 334 mm (image), 247 × 350 mm (plate), 270 × 384 mm (sheet). (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Georgian

15 minutes of fame Hannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

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Georgian

Hannah Humphrey Entrepreneurial Georgian printseller . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian

Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting showing a man and woman side by side with somber expressions. The man holds a pitchfork.
20th Century

What great paintings say American Gothic By Grant Wood, 1930

Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête.
Georgian

What great paintings say Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête by William Hogarth, c1743–45