What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

A Georgian manor house in the English countryside that during its heyday hosted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Prince Arthur, the third son of Britain’s Queen Victoria, has just been put ...

A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...

One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It could be a scene out of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding or Masterpiece Theater on PBS. The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family in ...

On Philip Dawe's 'The Macaroni, a Real Character at the Late Masquerade' (1773). A print of Philip Do, The Macaroni, a real character at the late masquerade (1773), from the British Museum. The work I ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new research that provides definitive evidence that the remains of an 18th-century British warship are resting in the waters of South Florida. Although the discovery of ...

Jason and Amanda Howard, a British couple who had lived all over the world, found a permanent home among the limestone hills of Wiltshire in southwest England, in this farmhouse from the late 1700s.