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A poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children by Dorothea Lange, colourised by Marina Amaral. (Photo courtesy of Head of Zeus)

History in colour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

Who were the real monuments men of the Second World War?

Notre Dame de la Major church, Arles

ExploreArles, France: 'Little Rome' of Provence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

A new civilisation rises

Uncovering China's Terracotta Army

Chinese terracotta soldiers

Terracotta Army: secrets from the grave

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner's guide to art history

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece

A painting of Charles I on horseback.

The art of a king

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

A baby wears pink.

A brief history of colour

In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

In profile: the 2017 Wolfson History Prize shortlist

An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

In thrall to the red planet: 5 facts about our view of Mars through history

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: The photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot

The French ballerina who became wealthier than Queen Victoria

Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

Corner shops and Russian ballet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bridge Cottage, Wirral. (Photo by Corbis Documentary/Getty Images)

History explorer: the arts and crafts movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Arts and Crafts and unusual inventors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"Welcome home, Charlie": Chaplin’s postwar return to London

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads

History’s most fascinating muses

Student life and working class culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare: the historians’ view