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A colourful illustration inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing women embroidering scenes of medieval warriors, archers and a mounted knight onto a large piece of fabric. The tapestry is draped over a tree-stump table, with balls of coloured wool scattered around it.

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Michael Wood on women’s contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting showing a black beast biting the leg of an orange man dressed in a loincloth

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What have the Etruscans ever done for us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photograph shows two men standing with their faces very close together. They both have serious expressions on their faces and are staring down the lens of the camera. Across the bottom are the words KING & CONQUEROR

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The wrong moustache in the Battle of Hastings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a woman in a gold and red dress walking on a tightrope while balancing a pair of scales on her head. The scales hold an angel on one side and a devil on the other. Behind her on the tightrope, there is a cat. Below her, there is a town and a factory, with some houses submerged in water

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Michael Wood on lessons on good government from medieval Siena. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Many brightly coloured teacups with triangular handles sit on top of a white table. To the left, one of them is being picked up. The person is wearing a green bracelet on the arm they are using to hold the cup

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Designs for life: the lasting impact of Art Deco. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Paint your own pot, like an ancient Etruscan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Singer Sargent and his scandalous portrait of 'Madame X'.

Edwardian

John Singer Sargent and the scandalous Madame X portrait that set the Gilded Age alight

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Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Flower power: how plants transformed the lives of 17th-century women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two men dressed in Tudor clothes stand next to one another against a green curtain backdrop. Between them are several items, including a globe, a hymnbook and a lute

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Tudors in turmoil: deciphering Hans Holbein’s masterwork The Ambassadors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Renaissance

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

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Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcastMichelangelo: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

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Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American Gothic by Grant Wood

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QuizArt decades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Drag: a British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting

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The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

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The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cities that turbocharged art history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcastThe Pre-Raphaelites: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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 historyDr John Chu, senior national curator at the National Trust

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

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The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What great paintings sayThe Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frida Kahlo painting

20th Century

Who was Frida Kahlo?Her life and legacy

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistoryvideoVideo5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

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