The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

From Eton prefects to wedding ushers, Prince William and Harry Aubrey-Fletcher go way back: but who is the son of Sir Henry ...

Depictions of Sir Thomas More in these works (pictured, Martin Shaw as More in Robert Bolt's play) are very different, taking ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

His men’s overcoat is printed with an adaptation of a 17th-century Flemish tapestry ... The order was established by King Henry III in the 16th century and then abolished by King Louis Philippe ...

In past centuries, you might have given your valentine a bent coin, jewelry made out of hair, or a carved whale tooth instead of a bouquet of roses.

But it was his schoolteachers’ real-life stories about 17th-century pioneers trading ... books with photographs of early 20th-century explorers: bearded men standing on Kotelnyy Island, dwarfed ...

this traveling exhibition brings together marquee Netherlandish old masters from the 15th to 17th century, including Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Hans Memling, Jan Brueghel, and Michaelina ...

From romantic classics to indulgent luxuries, these Valentine’s Day gifts make appreciation effortless — no last-minute panic ...

As the men climbed a sandy bank ... weigh the silver in a Hungarian coin called a ducat. By the mid- to late 17th century the new global economy encompassed even isolated Croatoan Island.