From the elegant, wit-sharp drawing rooms of the Regency era to the smog-filled, industrialised streets of the Victorian age, ...
19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...
Longtime adventure author and editor Anthony Brandt has just released his latest work, The Man Who Ate His Boots. The intensely researched book examines the search for the Northwest Passage, the holy ...
The 1831 painting by British artist Emma Jones centers two Black girls as its sole subjects—at the time, an extraordinary and radical act in European painting ...
London – A rediscovered masterpiece in watercolour, A Reception in the Harem by John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876), unseen in public for over 60 years, leads Bonhams 19th Century & Orientalist Paintings ...
Scott Simon talks with Candice Millard about 19th century British exploration and her new book, "River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile." The quest ...
In China around 1839, large quantities of opium were circulating, with an estimated 40,000 boxes of opium being brought in annually via the port of Guangzhou. A huge market had formed, with some ...
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A 19th century Scottish theologian and the Syrian Orthodox Church
The missionary, best remembered in Kerala for getting the first four books of the Bible’s New Testament translated to ...
Children Playing by the Shore, a charming work by the British artist Dorothea Sharp, is to be offered at Bonhams 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale in London on ...
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