Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Drawing into ...

Such was George III’s passion for astronomy that he had an observatory built to observe the transit of Venus. Although his interest remains unrivalled, scientific curiosity gripped the Royal Family for centuries, as Matthew Dennison reveals

When William Caxton opened Britain’s first printing press 550 years ago, he helped the country form a shared language and literary culture, as a new exhibition reveals

My February issue of HistoryExtra magazine arrived today and I was fascinated to see the cover image informing readers of “Lucy Worsley’s hunt for a London serial killer”. The image (below) itself see

Rufus Bird on catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era

Conflict photography has been manipulated in a range of ways since the medium began, as Hilary Roberts reveals in her new book. She talks to David Clark