When Marcel Proust was trying to characterise the nature of the involuntary memory famously provoked by tasting a madeleine ...

In ‘Flashes of Brilliance’ (Norton, July), the photo editor traces the evolution of photography from the mid-19th to the ...

A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

I had been interested in the supernatural and spiritual history of the landscape for a long time but I thought it was too ...

Early that year, the French government had ... captures the breadth of this mid-19th-century energy. There’s the rush to capture the fledgling nation’s important monuments, as in the daguerreo ...

As a result, the theme of agency is implicit in many of these early images ... As Miles Orvell writes in American Photography (2003): "Nature, in this 19th-Century context, was land to claim ...

But attending a family wedding in Monaghan at the weekend, it struck me that the Child of Prague should ... Cabra Castle is an early-19th century resurrection of an older fortress, once owned ...

Restoring an early nineteenth century bakehouse brought the Millers Flat community together. Now, it brings history to life for locals and visitors alike. Hilary McKenzie, a trustee on the restoration ...

The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation was taking place during the industrialization of France. Zinn, et al (2025) International Journal of Paleopathology The Industrial ...