From the elegant, wit-sharp drawing rooms of the Regency era to the smog-filled, industrialised streets of the Victorian age, ...

The 2026 record price for British School, 19th Century was for Portrait of a Military Officer The 2025 record price for British School, 19th Century was for A Sikh encampment with the arrival of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

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 ...

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 ...

The film discusses the evolution of voting rights in 19th century England, focusing on the passage of three key reform bills in 1832, 1867, and 1884. It highlights the struggles of different social ...

When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and pleasant land, to quote William Blake. But in the history of art, British landscape painting is ...

In 1870, 29-year-old British photographer Thomas Child moved to Peking — as Beijing was formerly known — to work as a gas engineer for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. Although he signed a ...

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 ...