A family in late 17th-century England led a simple, not to mention laborious, life. A majority of the population lived in a one- or two-room house, which was often crowded with large families and ...

This choice was based in firsthand experience; Austen’s own mother complained all her life about health problems that Jane ...

A new exhibition about a burial on the Isle of Lewis from the 1700s has opened for the first time in a generation.