It’s hooked, loosely, around her 2014 discovery of the ideas of the polymath and society doctor George Cheyne; ironically, given he was “the most obese man in 18th-century England”, he’s ...

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790 to 1835, an ongoing show in the Indian capital put together by Delhi ...

It is a book that, for all its apparent modesty, encompasses an awful lot of human life The chapters on written ... is just one example of an 18th-century object pulled into a world more familiar ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired a rare 18th-century French painting previously caught at the center of a lawsuit between ...

An 18th-century Austrian monk who died of tuberculosis was mummified in an extremely unusual way.

Author and retired professor of history at University ­College Cork, Tom Dunne, who has died at the age of 82, was a highly ...

This summer, on June 7th, the fort will be celebrating that history with an event called ‘Fort Bedford River Rendezvous,’ which will provide visitors with an authentic 18th century experience.