The university opened a full-scale recreation of a colonial coffee house, a centerpiece of Penn’s first major exhibit of the ...

A sketch rescued in a dumpster in Hudson, New York is a long lost sketch by renowned English portrait painter George Romney.

A man thought he was in for a garden nightmare when his yard flooded, but he ended up discovering something amazing from the 18th century.

These immersive installations, says Fiona, are making us aware of the impact of colour – and pattern – on our senses. “The ...

When as a partner at the law firm acting for Polly Peck’s administrators I was tasked with clearing his desk, I recall his unopened post told different stories. “I enclose a £5 note to help you in ...

By Mark Landler and Mara Hvistendahl Reporting from London It was the site of ... And from the 16th century to the early 18th century, it was a supply yard for the Royal Navy.

London has long been defined by the river that runs through it. In Victorian times, human figures were commonly spotted at low tide, bent over and wading in the ...

Saving William Blake’s London House for the nation moved closer to reality when the London Assembly passed a motion to refer ...

The patenting by George Ravenscroft in his London Savoy workshop of glass made with lead oxide ... It is for this reason that a volume of 18th century material has survived. For today’s collector, ...

There are several broad-brush portraits of 18th-century London and explications of well-known Hogarth scenes. We are told that beer and roast beef were ‘symbol[s] of Britishness’. A chapter entitled ...

Originally a large mews house from the 19th century and later an upholstery business before being converted to a family home ...