In his day people could be hanged for stealing a packet of tea.Thomas Paine is one of Norfolk's most famous and internationally ... for posterity in his death mask, made by Paine's friend John ...

This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

These death masks are reputedly of hanged Worcestershire prisoners of the early 19th Century. Convicted prisoners were hanged in the Gaol and their bodies taken through an underground tunnel ...

Between 1858 and his death in 1873 he ... of art and natural history together with a large collection of North American objects and photographs. This Haida mask can be transformed from the outer ...

King Tutankhamun’s iconic death mask may not have been crafted for him at all. Researchers from the University of York suggest it was initially intended for a high-status female or child ...