Henry Cole, the founding director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK sent the first Christmas card in 1843.
A 19th Century obsession with people being accidentally buried alive may have led to a 24-year-old woman being exhumed from a Sussex churchyard. It is alleged to have happened in 1816 at St Andrew's ...
Rumours of a young woman being accidentally buried alive started at St Andrew's Church in Alfriston in 1816 [Simon Furber/BBC] A 19th Century obsession with people being accidentally buried alive may ...
As the Second World War beckoned in 1939, the director of London’s National Gallery, Sir Kenneth Clark, came up with a plan: to commission a handful of carefully chosen artists to document life on the ...
Discover five groundbreaking technologies that are transforming the way we live, work, and thrive. Explore Project Guideline's assistive running application for the visually impaired from Google ...
Two new books, 'Blank Space' and 'A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls' examine capitalism and the arts in different eras.
What was working on SS Great Britain really like? Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain is undoubtedly one of the most ...
Meow Wolf, a misfit collective of artists based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is building dazzling interactive art spaces around ...
Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka has called out the "tunnel vision in contemporary rock records". For his side project Mirador, ...
Neil Sean is most often cited as a royal expert, but from time to time, he does discuss other subjects in the UK. This weekend, he took a dive into the festive season. Read on to find out how he tied ...
From “Mary Poppins” to “Downton Abbey,” afternoon tea is a quintessentially British ritual. It’s a tradition that started with a hangry duchess and expanded to hearty evening spreads for working-class ...
Ireland has no shortage of stately manors, but as Irish Stew hosts Martin Nutty and John Lee learned, no other historic ...