Eadweard Muybridge is remembered today for his pioneering photographic studies of motion, which ultimately led to the development of cinema.

A painting lost, found, then lost and found again, only to be called a fake and tossed behind a door. What's the history of the multi-million dollar painting that one lucky Antiques Roadshow attendee found?

The 1800s aren’t usually remembered through sound. While Photographs allow us to see this century more vividly than any before it, the stern-faced Victorians stare back at us in silence from their portraits.

Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, Howell eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. It was here where he first heard that P...

This is Frank B. Wood, who witnessed the very first attempt that the Wright Brothers made at powered air flight. It happened on December 14, 1903. According to the official record, "The airplane (called the 'Wright Flyer' at the time) left the rail, but...

Today, January 27, 2024 is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Peek into the past with Senior Curator Angus Patterson and Conservator Philip Kevin, as they carefully unlock a historic 17th-century strongbox.

A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.

In the 1640s in England, Matthew Hopkins worked as a witch-finder, discovering and torturing hundreds of women in eastern England. His evil work sent perhaps a hundred people to the gallows to be hanged. More than all the other witch hunters in England. T...

The Celts were an ancient civilization that first mastered iron and dominated Northwest Europe. The Celts lacked a sense of national identity and lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, leaving behind simple homesteads.

Meet the original 1959 Barbie – she's stylish, glamorous, the ultimate California girl. But have you met her fashion rival Sindy? Slightly younger, slightly cooler – Sindy was launched in 1963 as Britain's answer to a dress-up fashion doll, with a super s...

The gloves are on as Angus Patterson, Senior Metalwork Curator at the V&A, reveals a mysterious and highly toxic object from not one, but two unusual boxes. Find out what's inside the boxes, who used it and why rogue doctors in the 17th century recom...

In the late Stone Age, the pagan people of the British Isles constructed some of the greatest monuments of the ancient world. See more in Season 1, Episode 12, "The Pagans."

For this episode of the Built Ecologies series, they turn to “green” architect Emilio Ambasz. Renowned for buildings that incorporate and frame luscious greenery, Ambasz here explores his lifelong commitment to creating architecture that harmoniously blen...

June 1, 1969 (Ed Sullivan Show...choreography by Bob Fosse): Beyoncé has freely admitted that she copied this clip for her legendary "Single Ladies" video. Ironically, the older video is in bright color, while the recent copycat is in black & white.