Chinchorro mummies- the oldest examples of mummified human remains, becoming popular years before the Egyptian mummies
The revolutionary history of tea drinking in the western world
Meet Lily Elsie, the stage diva and the most photographed women of the Edwardian Era.
The “character heads“ of Franz Messerschmidt – produced as the sculptor fell into mental illness and as attempts to exorcise his private demons
Fascinating portraits of the ingenious Kwakiutl tribe, taken 100 years ago
Beautiful Civil War images that have been colourised
SS Edmund Fitzgerald – the Fitzgerald simply disappeared into Lake Superior
1938: Dora Ratjen, a German Olympic athlete, who was arrested at a train station, they thought it was a guy in a dress
The sixth man who walked on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, has died.
Vintage photographs from inside 8 Beautiful Libraries
