Herbert Ponting's Photographs of Antarctica in Colour
Colourised and remastered images from Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition
Features
Here you can explore our archive of long form pieces, written by expert historians. In these features, they explain where they found their ideas, how they crafted their stories, what new discoveries they have made and arguments they have proposed.
Walking the Streets of London in the 1660s
Joad R. Wren explains how he found inspiration and truth in Ralph Agas's map of London
The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
The artist Graham Turner casts an eye back to 1471 and one of the decisive moments of the Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Barnet
The Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (1950)
"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"
Raising the US Flag on Iwo Jima (1945)
On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Here it is in colour
Outside The Chicago Theatre On State Street (1950)
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick
The Death of Vladimir Lenin (1924)
On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.
A View Of Mulberry Street In New York City (1900)
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
Sandbags Inside Amiens Cathedral (1918)
A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church
A Blacksmith in Illinois
Bert Wikle was a member of the German-American Community in the early twentieth century
Harry Clifton and Brideshead’s Sebastian Flyte
The real-life inspiration for a classic character from fiction
