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 ...

A Georgian manor house in the English countryside that during its heyday hosted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Prince Arthur, the third son of Britain’s Queen Victoria, has just been put ...

Gold oval brooch with a band of diamonds within a blue glass guilloche border surrounded by white enamel (1890). Lady’s blue right eye with dark brow (all images from Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It could be a scene out of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding or Masterpiece Theater on PBS. The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family in ...

A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

The Earl of Chesterfield, the 18th-century British statesman and patron of the arts, had a number of concerns about his illegitimate son Philip, but one he revisited often in his posthumously ...

Jason and Amanda Howard, a British couple who had lived all over the world, found a permanent home among the limestone hills of Wiltshire in southwest England, in this farmhouse from the late 1700s.

Archaeologists have uncovered new research that provides definitive evidence that the remains of an 18th-century British warship are resting in the waters of South Florida. Although the discovery of ...

LONDON — The owners of a quirky 18th century British pub unlawfully bulldozed after a mysterious fire last year were ordered Tuesday by a local council to rebuild it — and to stick to its original, ...

A British victory in the 1763 Battle of Bushy Run helped to prevent a takeover of Fort Pitt, the fortification that would grow into Pennsylvania’s major western city — Pittsburgh. Putting that ...