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A remarkable undated drawing by Edward Lear (1812–88) blends natural history and whimsy.

Once central to military strategy and venerated in patriotic households, Lord Kitchener is now largely forgotten.

Desperately seeking Woolner medallions

Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.

This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.