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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 ...

The King's Regiment was one of Britain's oldest regiments with a straight, direct lineage. Created in 1685 as the Princess Anne of Denmark’s Regiment, it became the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment in 1881 ...

Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames. It shows a farmer (posed by the inn keeper) returning home for his meal, while his horse leans ...

This print, 'Mer de Glace, Vallery of Chamouni, Savoy', is plate 50 of Turner's 'Liber Studiorum' series. It is an example of the Mountainous category of landscape painting. It was published with the ...

The National Dock Labour Board was set up in 1947 to find a solution to the prevailing casual labour system in Britain's ports. Its two aims were to ensure that dock work was undertaken only by ...

Captain Daniel Dow was born at Castlebellingham, Co.Louth, Ireland in 1860. He served with Brocklebank and Cunard and the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR). He was the usual master of Lusitania, but was on ...

This is part of a group of drawings by British artist and book illustrator Edward Francis Burney, depicting scenes from Greek and Roman history and mythology. Hera, wife of Zeus, arranged for two ...