Call it a recession indicator or simply growing up, the culture is constantly craving nostalgia. Once a generation’s trend cycles have become stale, they begin to romanticize a palatable, upgraded ...

Maidment with early 19th-century periodicals: he was thrilled by ‘the inky blackness of the lettering, shouting display types and perpetually inventive combination of type, image and white page’ ...

A young man with a watering can pretends to douse his companions. Two friends playfully attack each other, brandishing a hacksaw and a cleaver. A grinning girl takes aim with a popgun. Typical ...

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

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In 1842, a court in Lancaster, England, convicted a young lawyer, George Baxter Grundy, of forging payment, and promptly sent him to serve a fifteen-year sentence in Bermuda, “beyond the seas.” The ...

Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that ...

The Europeans.authorBy Orlando Figes.Metropolitan Books; 592 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. FOR AN EXAMPLE of the cosmopolitan glamour and sheer brassiness of high European culture in the 19th century, ...

"A time-travel fantasy" and the largest privately-owned home in the US, Biltmore House was George W Vanderbilt's "American chateau built on the scale of a European palace". It came to encapsulate the ...