Videos
Historic Figures
A Shorts series on the people history remembers — told in under 3 minutes each.
“To Her” Elizabeth Emma (Jones) Soyer & Alexis Soyer
A short on the Victorian chef Alexis Soyer and the wife he immortalised in art after her death.
Charles Blondin
The French tightrope walker who crossed Niagara Falls — and never looked down.
Charles Babbage
Inventor, mathematician, and polymath — the mind behind the first mechanical computer.
Joseph Lister
Before this man, surgery was a death sentence.
Michael Faraday
The man who tamed electricity.
Dr James Barry
The secret the Army never saw coming.
Decimus Burton
He designed half of London and no one knew his name.
Sir Jacob Epstein
The sculptor Britain tried to cancel.
Kate Meyrick
Queen of London's nightclubs.
Sir Henry Tate
He made his fortune in sugar and changed art forever.