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The article reviews several of the permanent exhibition pieces found at the People's History Museum in Manchester, England, including artifacts from the 19th-century Chartist movement, the history of the Labour Party, and political papers from the 1640s.

The 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession is the perfect opportunity to take stock of Tudor history. What is considered important has changed dramatically. In the 1960s, when Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More triumphed at the Oscars but scholars still shunned the media limelight, historians studied narrowly-based political and constitutional topics, for example Geoffrey Elton in his Tudor Revolution in Government (1953). The exception, working against the grain in an older narrative tradition, was Jack Scarisbrick, whose Henry VIII (1968) is a brilliant biography of a tyrant-king that has yet to be surpassed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the exhibition 'Vietnam: Behind the Lines: Images from the War 1965-75,' at the British Museum.

The article reviews the exhibition "Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination" at the British Library through March 2012, which focuses on the illumination of medieval manuscripts.

A listing of multiple museum exhibitions running in Great Britain during 2011 is presented, including "Sculpture From the Barber Collection at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham, "An Ocean Apart: Child Evacuees in the Second World War," at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England; and "Fortifications at Risk," at the National Army Museum of London.

Reviews the exhibition "Women and War," at the Imperial War Museum in London, England, April 8, 2004.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Philippines, Archipelago of Exchange," at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, France.

The article reviews the museum exhibition "Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill," running March 6 to July 4, 2010 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.