What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

The exterior of Sir John Soane’s Museum (all images courtesy the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum unless otherwise noted, via Flickr) The stately facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum sits on the ...

Often, when I see that a book comes directly out of a dissertation, there’s a sinking feeling that it may be arcane and academic in the extreme. The kind of book that’s filled with jargon and overly ...

THANKS to its sense of form and powers of consolidation, eighteenth-century England is one of the great eras or cultures that seem fairly possible to encompass. Civilized, urbane, we say of it; or, ...

Hair jewelry, as its name suggests, is jewelry carefully crafted and created with real human hair, typically made to memorialize someone recently deceased. While the popularity of hair jewelry ...

“Pictures in Private: British Portraiture in Domestic Spaces, 1680 to 1830,” an intimate exhibition of small-scale portraits displayed in homes at that time, demonstrates that decorating hasn’t ...

"The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction" breaks new ground in the history of the novel by revealing both the persistent influence of popular culture and of an older, patrician ...