A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

On the morning of 7 May 1821 an urgent task was performed at Longwood House on St Helena. A day and a half previously, the ...

The British director has resurrected Mussorgsky’s unfinished work ‘Khovanshchina’ for the Salzburg Easter Festival ...

There’s a war going on out there, somewhere … and while the soldiers are away, young Natasha encounters the decadent world of 19th-century Moscow, and it changes the course of her life. Based on a ...

from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...