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Da Vinci's Mona Lisa portrait

Q&AWho was the Mona Lisa?

History ExplorerThe Holy Island of Lindisfarne

The story of Madame Tussaud.

10 photographs that made history

Pocket-sized paintings: Elizabethans in miniature.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustration by Kate Greenaway, 1888. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

In pictures: fairytales through history

British Artist Ivon Hitchens. (Image by Bridgeman)

My history hero: Chris Packham chooses Ivon Hitchens.

Married architects Alison and Peter Smithson at work, October 1961. The pair were architect members of the Independent Group and had an impact on the British urban scene via what became known as ‘New Brutalism’. (Photo by Davies/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Who were the original Independent Group?.

Duncan Grant's studio at Charleston. Despite its lack of creature comforts, the East Sussex farmhouse became the weekend hub of the Bloomsbury set. (Photo by Charleston House/Tony Tree)

History ExplorerThe story of the Bloomsbury set.

The National Portrait Gallery attributed this unfinished portrait to Jane Austen’s sister, Cassandra, and dated it to circa 1810. (Universal History Archive / Getty Images)

What did Jane Austen really look like?

The "brilliant" Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse in 1935. (Getty Images)

My history hero: Walt Disney (1901-66).

A poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children by Dorothea Lange, colourised by Marina Amaral. (Photo courtesy of Head of Zeus)

History in colour.

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

Who were the real monuments men of the Second World War?.

Notre Dame de la Major church, Arles

ExploreArles, France: 'Little Rome' of Provence.

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)

A new civilisation rises.

Uncovering China's Terracotta Army.

Chinese terracotta soldiers

Terracotta Army: secrets from the grave.

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.

A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner's guide to art history.

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

A painting of Charles I on horseback.

The art of a king.

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

A baby wears pink.

A brief history of colour.

In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?.

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal.

BBC History Magazine

In profile: the 2017 Wolfson History Prize shortlist

An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

In thrall to the red planet: 5 facts about our view of Mars through history.