In the summer of 1995, an unusual photograph of Temple Newsam, a historic estate in Leeds, England, captured strange marks ...

Big ball gowns, corsets and frilly heels bring us back to the era of Marie Antoinette, as the exhibition “Fashion in the 18th Century: A Fantasized Legacy” opens at the Palais Galliera in Paris.

Daniel Livesay, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the ...

From Eliza Haywood to Anne Radcliffe, there are other great 18-century writers whose work would be great on screen.

In the last quarter of the 18th century, a French adventurer, Pierre Poivre (Peter Pepper), was successful. Poivre had spent ...

People in the 18th century were expected to look neat, elegant and have a natural shape, according to a University of Exeter academic who has found the period saw important changes in how society ...

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 ...