Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation? The word "loneliness" was not common before the 19th century. Cultural historian Fay Bound Alberti argues it was rarely used before 1800.

A century after serving in the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, two soldiers are to receive veteran headstones. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs approved headstones ...

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But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

Last week, the Arts Council announced that Britain’s museums have benefitted from some £50 million of art and antiques through tax saving incentives provided by the Treasury in the year 2015 to 2016.

This densely built colonial city par excellence of the Brazilian northeast is distinguished by its religious, civil and military colonial architecture dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

The painting has been part of the collection of the Dukes of Bedford at Woburn Abbey since the mid-eighteenth century. The website explains that 'The following painting is to be sold no sooner than ...

The English baluster is one of the earliest classes of drinking glass. These were popular from the last years of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th, and this early date makes them ...