It was a boarding school for middle and upper-class girls. The 17th-century paper cutouts found at Sutton House, U.K. Photo courtesy of National Trust Images – James Dobson.

Beneath the floorboards of the Sutton House, several decorative paper cuttings made by schoolgirls have remained intact for 350 years. The Sutton House is a historic building in London that once ...

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.

The Ulster Settlers Database, which brings together several distinct 17th-century historical records for the first time, is now accessible to researchers on a new website.

As the historian Mary Beth Norton writes in the introduction to her delightful new book, “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer,” which collects and comments on a wide array of Q&As from the paper ...

He Fell in Love With a Venetian Palazzo. But Why Did It Seem So Familiar? On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English art dealer found himself captivated by a 17th-century apartment.

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new.