In the 17th century, girls attending a London boarding school learned to make decorative paper cuttings. Several of these creations—including a tiny fox, a star and a hen—survived for 350 ...

Archaeology & History Rare 17th-Century Paper Cutouts Found Under Floorboards of Tudor House. The paper cutouts, likely created by schoolgirls, will go on display at Sutton House through December.

The intricate designs – very rare examples of the paper-cutting art form – were found beneath the floorboards of a former London boarding school, and will be on show until December. View on ...

In the complex and often brutal reality of 17th-century slavery across the Mediterranean, a surprising thread of religious toleration occasionally emerges. Nowhere is this paradox more vividly ...

A four-year project to restore a 17th Century building in Guildford is now complete. The Grade I-listed Guildford House, on the High Street, was built in 1660 for John Childe, a lawyer who went on ...

The Earth was cooler than usual in the 16th and 17th centuries and scientists are still trying to figure out why. New analysis of sunspot drawings by Kepler, in 1607, may shed some light.

One of the lessons of “‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer,’” Mary Beth Norton’s delightful compendium of 17th-century advice to the lovelorn, is a sobering one to us today: Things that we ...

Two of the most popular advice columns of the 20th century—Elizabeth Gilmer’s “Dorothy Dix Talks,” which ran from 1896 to 1950, and Elsie Robinson’s “Cry on Geraldine’s Shoulder ...

Historic St. Mary's City, a Maryland-based museum and archaeological organization, is opening up a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic Church called the Brick Chapel on Apr. 12.

In 17th-century Netherlands, “friendship books” functioned like high school yearbooks: “Entries normally occupied a page, with an autograph, the date, a moral motto or epigram, and a ...

Preteen and teenage schoolgirls made these tiny paper cuttings in the 17th century. National Trust Images / James Dobson In the 17th century, girls attending a London boarding school learned to ...

These 17th-century drawings of the sun by Kepler add fire to solar cycle mystery. ... That method used a "small hole in a wall to project the sun's image onto a sheet of paper," the statement noted.