Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical uphea...

Katherine Parr gets dressed in the fashion of the Tudor era. With the help of her handmaids, she puts on traditional clothes worn by royalty during the reign of Henry VIII.

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts a...

Jan Matejko's 1862 Stańczyk is very emotionally charged. It's a pretty simple scene: A sad jester, alone in a dark room. Why is he sad? Can a jester, or a clown, be sad, knowing that their job is to spread happiness? In this video, we'll be talking about...

Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a poet and an engineer. An outsider touched by genius.

Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions f...

In celebration of the Queen's #PlatinumJubilee, Andrew, Lin-Manuel Miranda and iconic shows such as @The Phantom of the Opera, @Hamilton, The Lion King, @SIX and @Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, performed at the Platinum Party At The Palac...

A proud Black trans woman, a drag mother and, a pageant girl, Crystal LaBeija was the cause of an iconic moment in drag history that paved the way for house culture, voguing, Paris is Burning, and the TV series Pose.

What was it like to be a teenager in the Victorian era? Two women, now in their 90's, talk about their younger days in the 1890s. Frances 'Effy' Jones - one of the first women to be trained to use a typewriter, and to take up cycling as a hobby - recalls...

Get your battle axe ready - Sohla is taking us back to 800 AD to recreate a true viking solstice feast. This feast includes Skause, a viking stew, along with a traditional Birch Bark bread.

Sitting on one square mile of land in Long Island, NY, the 80,000 square foot mansion known as Harbor Hill once hosted renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald as a guest. He drew inspiration from Clarence Mackay's lifestyle when writing The Great Gatsby. Ex...

Any idea what "The House of the Rising Sun" is? Are you familiar with the famous song? Click through to discover what the origins are as well as hear the famous song.

Ever wonder how the wine glass came to be? It's shape? In this video you will hear about it's history and make a nice Sangria.

In a follow up to a previous video on this channel, we take a deep dive into the Druids of Irish mythology, and contrast them not only with their brethren on Britain and Gaul, but with later accounts by Church writers in the early medieval period.

In this video we dive into the accounts of the Druids of Gaul and Britain, and try to see if there is any archaeological evidence for their existence.