Samuel Browne's botanical explorations in 17th-century Madras offer insights into traditional plant uses and changing flora ...
Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project ...
York’s fashion designers, makers and wearers are celebrated in a new exhibition at York Castle Museum. Yorkshire Post Fashion ...
La Fiocco, the Bucks County baroque ensemble, continues its 2024-2025 season with Handel’s London.
Works by Velázquez, Titian and Picasso were offered at the fair, as well as a sculpture thought to be modelled by ...
A rare book collector has been left with a mystery after a £4000 volume of John Donne's poetry disappeared after an auction in Oxford.
March is full of exciting new YA releases that go well beyond the arrival of Suzanne Collins's latest Hunger Games novel.
Charles Foster was born in Aberdeen and attended Robert Gordons College where his father, John, taught English. While at ...
The history of wallpaper is not simply a history of ornamental patterns and designs. It is also a fascinating record of technological ingenuity and changes in patterns of consumption and domestic ...
The patenting by George Ravenscroft in his London Savoy workshop of glass made with lead oxide ... These were popular from the last years of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th, and ...
The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...
The poem was found in a 17th-century “miscellany,” a manuscript featuring texts by various authors, according to a statement from the university. The collection had belonged to Elias Ashmole ...