Manchester is renowned as the world’s first industrialized city — a hub of the Industrial Revolution in 18th-century Britain ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

From Princess Anne's royal sense of duty to the ways in which she breaks with tradition, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter is a ...

The literary it girl might seem like a fresh trend, but, like most things in fashion, it is inherently cyclical ... The ...

How the Affair of the Diamond Necklace changed history—and why 18th-century jewelry remains an eternal holy grail.

Both spaces are a testament to the artisan traditions of England that trace their DNA back centuries, from the hand-hewn furniture and cast-iron bridges of the 18th century to the modern fixtures ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

Queen Elizabeth I of England passed a law dictating the maximum ... in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By the end of the eighteenth century men had stopped wearing lace, and fashion also ...

The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity," which explores the ...

Pets became members of the family in the eighteenth ... in this century. Fun fact for a historical Tweet of the Day: each year, 1,600 canaries were packed off from Innsbruck to England alone.

The trailblazing artistic director has revolutionised high jewellery, with a bold vision that has shaken up time-honoured ...