What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

Gold oval brooch with a band of diamonds within a blue glass guilloche border surrounded by white enamel (1890). Lady’s blue right eye with dark brow (all images from Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from ...

Go back a little further though, and you will begin to struggle, partly thanks to what is known as the Great Vowel Shift, or ...

The blue plaque residence in Mayfair was refurbished in the 1820s for the Duke of Clarence, who became king in 1830 and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It could be a scene out of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding or Masterpiece Theater on PBS. The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family in ...

Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish. “When I first ...

Author and historian Hampton Sides was the first Colorado College Griffiths Journalist in Residence in 2014 and co-founded what would eventually become the CC Journalism Institute in Colorado Springs.

A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...

One of my pet peeves occurs when I ask college students why they picked their major, especially if it’s unusual or esoteric like, say, Ancient Byzantine Religions or Expressions of Medieval Art or ...

Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new research that provides definitive evidence that the remains of an 18th-century British warship are resting in the waters of South Florida. Although the discovery of ...