A decade-by-decade glimpse of shops and shopping through photographs from the Historic England Archive.

Women have always influenced domestic design but it wasn’t until 1898 that the first female architect was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Penny-farthings, tricycles and ‘sociables’ — get to know the different types of early bicycles through these newly discovered archive photographs.

Art and antiquity influenced garden design in England in the Georgian era.

Pre-fabricated churches, often called ‘iron churches’, ‘iron chapels’ or ‘tin tabernacles’, were developed in the mid-19th century.