80 years ago today, Alexandra Palace became the birthplace of British television as we know it.
Dr Jane Frances, Policy Adviser in Education at Changing Faces, talks about how we look at faces and how different ways of seeing are represented in our In Your Face exhibition.
Our brand new family experience, In Your Face, opened on 23 July with an amazing celebration party.
Musician, film star, showman: Frank Sinatra was the perfect entertainer.
Amanda Lynsdale discusses some of what she discovered while cataloguing the extensive BBC Collection, acquired in 2012.
The Prime Minister defiant, cigar clenched between his teeth, fingers raised in a victory salute: this iconic image is what many people call to mind when they hear the name ‘Winston Churchill’.
Selections from our photography collection illustrate the public spectacle (and some behind-the-scenes details) of the 1948 Olympics.
On 4 August 1914 the largest global conflict the world had witnessed began. We look at the role photography played in representing the ‘War to End All Wars’.
Image manipulation has been around longer than you might think—the compositing and shading techniques employed here were the precursors of Photoshop.
While our politicians, papers and commentators fall on either side of the food bank debate, we look back at poverty and charitable welfare in the 1930s.
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, are taking place in Sochi, Russia.
Filmed in 1915, Charles Urban’s Britain Prepared used military footage to promote British strength and determination in the war effort during the First World War.