A coral necklace, a Renaissance painter, and the ancient idea that breath and spirit are one and the same.

There’s more to lucky charms than horse shoes and four-leaf clovers…

There’s a lot of history behind the humble gingerbread man.

The stories and significance behind Bruegel’s snowy scene.

Creepy, or charming? Read how “dummy boards” brought theatre and trickery into the home in the 17th century.

The story of a famous “B”, which may never have existed.

The story of Anna Atkins and the world’s first photographic book.

Visiting a townhouse museum in Greenwich dedicated to the the history and craft of fan making.

In 1506, some labourers working in a field in Rome started to uncover a marble statue. It soon became clear that they had happened upon the Laocoön, a legendary, long-lost, ancient masterpiece.

A pigment shop first established in 1855, L. Cornelissen & Son is a window into another era of craft and commerce.

Meet Alvise Gradignan della Scala, one of the Vendecolori of Venice, the men (and women) who traded in pigments in early modern Venice.

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The story of the botanical artist Elizabeth Blackwell.

A visit to Vienna will only be improved by a visit to Altmann & Kühne, a modest shop with a fascinating, and truly Viennese, history.

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