Historical Belles and Beaus

These are not English but are lovely paintings of women at their toilet in the 18th Century   Francois Boucher - La Toilette, 1742 ...

Viggo Johansen 1891 By: Stephanie Burkhart Ah, there's nothing like the woodsy outdoor smell of a Douglas Fir to put me in the Chris...

Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, the 18th-century predecessor of the theatre; watercolour by William Capon ( V&A ) ...

Ellis Island, the reception centre for all new immigrants to New York, newly opened in 1900 after the earlier wooden structure burned down...

By: Stephanie Burkhart One genre picking up steam these days is steampunk. It's a bunch of fun to write but the genre insists on a c...

All cultures have harvest festivals. The United States harvest festival is Thanksgiving, now celebrated on the fourth Thursday of Novembe...

At the start of the war ration books were issued and by March 1940 bacon, sugar, butter and meat were being rationed. By the following Jul...