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Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
In a society unmoored from traditional institutions, many men turn to self-styled gurus to answer the ancient question: What ...
The Jefferson County Historical Society’s Fashion Through the Eras will be held on Saturday, April 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. at ...
MoMA's "Woven Histories" explores textiles in art, highlighting connections to labor, economic disparity and their interwoven ...
The last time we saw an intense debate like this over a curious new form of personal transportation that suddenly descended on cities and angered pedestrians was a century ago, and the ...
“Merchants desperately needed to time certain things,” says Nigel Thrift, co-author of Shaping the Day, a history of ... sporting folks of the 19th century began to fashion “wristlets ...
Hannah Carlson, who teaches dress history and material culture at the ... the “pocket disparity” in apparel started in the early 19th century. For men, suit pockets became standard while ...
On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...
Nestled in leafy north London, this Hampstead house preserves its historical architectural features while ... design a structure that would both complement the character of the 19th-century townhouse ...
The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...