The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of ...

It stood on a later mahogany stand. The 17th century Italian walnut and bone-inlaid cabinet that sold for £5,800. “It was a really unusual piece and we don’t see them that often,” said ...

The 17th century was marked by near-constant war, rebellion, and social collapse across much of the world. But what caused this wave of crises to erupt nearly everywhere at once? In this ...

There were hunting werewolves. In many ways, the people of 16th and 17th-century Europe imagined the werewolf as the ultimate violator of cultural, moral, and religious norms. But unlike their ...

The property is described as a 'fantastic 17th Century Tudor mansion with a more recent sympathetic extension to the property'. "The hotel has many original features one would expect from a period ...

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.

Now, Billiris keeps the family business alive through tours that show the history of the area and even provides a live demonstration of how sponge diving worked at the turn of the century.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Vital work on a 17th century bridge near a Suffolk town will take place this summer, with traffic lights in place on the A road.

A Scottish family-owned hotel company has purchased a country house dating from the seventeenth century. It follows a previous acquisition in the region by the Edinburgh-based company.

There are no plans to reintroduce a window tax in Britain, the government says, nearly 175 years after the levy was abolished. The tax, which varied according to the number of windows in a ...

The Repair Shop star Dominic Chinea stepped away from the BBC show’s beloved workshop to give fans a tour of his incredible 17th-century home. The metalwork expert is a much-loved member of the ...