Robert hooke microscope

How the scanning electron microscope takes detailed images of things too tiny for our naked eye to see

How scientific and technological advancements have expanded the possibilities of human creativity

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?