Art history

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‘Earliest portrait of guinea pig’ revealed in unseen painting

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Museum bid to acquire ‘new world’ George Stubbs paintings

19th-century invention

A 12th or 13th century funerary mask from the Philippines

General prehistory

Art of the Philippines

A 1970s evening dress. (© National Museums Liverpool)

100 Years of Women’s Fashion

Graffiti crosses found in churches

Church graffiti

George Frederick Handel married opera's passion with the respectability of biblical texts, says Tim Blanning. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

10 milestones in the history of western music

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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary

British political cartoonist David Low. His caricatures of political figures including Hitler resulted in him being placed in the Nazi 'Black Book' – a list of prominent Britons who were to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images

My history hero: Sir David Low (1891–1963)

A portrait of Russian queen Catherine the Great

In pictures: Catherine the Great

A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Paris 1802

Too good for the gallery

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in the centre of Florence (Getty)

A big day in history: Florence’s bonfire of the vanities

The Eidophusikon