8 Mysterious medical images
A recently discovered collection of archive images help to tell the story of England’s medical history.
Category: Historic photography
How Did Women Win the Right to Vote?
Take a look at some of the key people, places and moments in the campaign for women’s rights to vote.
Pass the Popcorn: A Brief Introduction to Cinemas
How England’s love for film inspired the construction of glamorous and decorative cinemas.
The Historic Beach Holiday Packing List
Historic England’s tourism history expert Allan Brodie has dipped into the Archive and come up with a handy list of things to pack for your holiday!
A Race Against Destruction: The Wartime Photography of Margaret Tomlinson
The National Buildings Record (NBR) was born of war, created quickly in early 1941 to photograph and document England’s historic buildings.
8 Images of a Frosted England
Baby, it’s cold outside!
Dickens at Christmas: 7 Places to Visit Around England
Is there any novelist more closely linked with Yuletide than Charles Dickens? His story, A Christmas Carol, was an instant hit in 1843 and helped make Christmas fashionable again.
8 Historic London Shopfronts
London streets are lined with colourful shops, clamouring for our attention. Many are of considerable age, and have survived forContinue Reading
10 Portraits of England
Our Archive collection of over 9 million images contains some of the earliest photographs ever taken, and exists as anContinue Reading
6 Sites of Memory for Overseas War Heroes
The First and Second World Wars were truly global in scale and involvement.