Courtly life in 18th century Versailles is widely remembered as "a world of pure fantasy frolics", said Jonathan Jones in The ...

It’s hooked, loosely, around her 2014 discovery of the ideas of the polymath and society doctor George Cheyne; ironically, given he was “the most obese man in 18th-century England”, he’s ...

Researchers cataloged “drains, floors, plaster walls and lots of interesting evidence of day to day life in the 18th century,” officials said in a Dec. 13 Facebook post. What are we learning ...

These remarkable and intricate illustrations are the work of Mark Catesby, an English naturalist and artist who made numerous visits to North America in the early 18th century, recording the flora ...