She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, and set up home with two men but her most sensual paintings were of women. Now a major ...

In the mid-19th century, photographs with ghostlike figures became collectible amusements thanks to the invention of the stereoscope – a device that created three-dimensional optical illusions.

famous portraits, and card sets that told stories. Among these collections of sights unseen were plenty of ghostly images. The Ghost in the Stereoscope, a colorized card, shows two men in open ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

famous portraits and card sets that told stories. Among these collections of sights unseen were plenty of ghostly images. “The Ghost in the Stereoscope,” a colorized card, shows two men in ...

We can all agree that growing a moustache for charity is a good idea. But is it worth keeping afterwards? Harry Pearson looks to the past to find the answers.

John Payne Collier was at the height of his academic career. Then he was unmasked as a prolific and audacious forger ...

A miniature depicting a young Victorian woman is the spur for a tale of male duplicity and female resourcefulness in The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley (Breakthrough Books £10.99). Jewellery ...

A key to the 19th Century painting The Derby Day at Flemington names almost 70 people and a horse. No. 41 is referred to as Mrs Blair's Aborigine.

The artist Paul P. is a painter whose power comes from representing a scarcely documented, in-between generation of queer ...

Samuel Pepys moved into this parish when he was appointed Commissioner of the Navy Board and came to live next to the Navy Office at the rear of the church, noting his arrival at “ my house in ...