This was the first major painting Hunt made during his first stay in the Holy Land. He had the idea for it while researching Jewish rituals for another painting, 'The Finding of the Saviour in the ...

Etty was the most successful history painter in Britain in the first half of the 19th century. He grounded his work in academic discipline, spending long hours painting from the live model, and in his ...

From the British Invasion, to innovative recording techniques and embracing Eastern sounds, here's how the Beatles got so big. In 1998 viewers of Britain's Channel 4 television voted for the Beatles ...

Papyrus Mayer B is a legal document recording part of a tomb robbery trial at the end of the New Kingdom. It is the written record of a confession to thefts in the tomb of King Ramesses VI in the ...

Papyrus Mayer A is a legal document containing a portion of evidence at the trial of the tomb robbers at Thebes. It consists of a single sheet measuring 1430 mm x 425 mm, cut vertically into two ...

How the recording studio went from merely a tool, to part of the essential fabric of music. Although multitrack recorders were developed as early as the 1940s, at the time The Beatles started their ...

Admiral Lord Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 overshadowed the British Navy’s victory that day. This is part of the Queer relationships collection. Nelson spent time with his ...

Twelve objects that tell the story of how the war affected the city and its people.

In 1864 John Clint (d.1868), a Liverpool seaman and shipowner, founded a charitable institution to provide a secure environment in which to train the sons of sailors, destitute and orphaned boys, to ...

This immense building, designed by the corporation Surveyor John Foster Jnr. and erected between 1828 and 1837, stood at the historic heart of Liverpool in Canning Place, the site of the city's first ...

Alex Patterson looks at the fascinating life of Rosa Bonheur. As part of LGBT+ History Month, I’m delighted to celebrate the life and work of Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899). Bonheur was one of the most ...

World Museum has a scientifically and historically important national collection of over a million specimens from around the world. The majority of these collections are housed, managed and cared for ...