Photo Gallery

Photo of the inside of an abandoned house bedroom

Frozen in time

A poster from the First World War.

First World War

First World War posters

A painting by John Constable

Constable at Petworth

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels

A photograph of photographer George Lowe and Cho Oyu mountain

The conquest of Everest

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

General prehistory

Art of the Philippines

Illustration of an 18th Century lady with large hair style

Hair: The Styling of Society

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

Pieces from the Lewis Chessmen, some of the earliest chessmen to survive.

In pictures: what are the Lewis Chessmen?

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