Art history

A crowd admiring the artworks at an exhibition by the Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington House, London. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

General ancient history

A new civilisation rises

From The Library

Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Why is Harold a hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?

From The Library

An overview of the Terracotta Warriors in the Terracotta Museum of Xian, China. (Image by Getty)

Uncovering China’s Terracotta Army

Chinese terracotta soldiers

General ancient history

Terracotta Army: Secrets from the grave

Podcast Website large Kathryn Hurlock

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry

A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react

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Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece

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Frankenstein at 200: the birth of a gothic monster

A painting of Charles I on horseback.

The art of a king

From The Library

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1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

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A history of colour

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Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

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In pictures: Russian visual culture, 1905-1955