Dictatorships’ aversion to human rights is as characteristic of the Iranian Ayatollahs’ Islamist theocracy as it is of Putin’s imperial Russian and of the Chinese Communist Party’s ...

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In 1873 an English traveller put his finger on the whole problem with Russian art. ‘Artists in St Petersburg live in comparative isolation,’ he wrote, ‘they are as a colony planted on the utmost verge ...

Welcome to Historic UK’s directory of museums in Britain, ranging from internationally famous national museums such as the Natural History Museum, to specialist and local interest museums. The sheer ...