The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Picturing Nature," featuring 70 British landscape watercolors and drawings from ...

In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran has shed light on maritime trade in the Caspian Sea. This wooden vessel likely dates to the late ...

Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and pleasant land, to quote William Blake. But in the history of art, British landscape ...