A 18th century sex manual is going to be auctioned in Edinburgh nearly 200 years after it was banned from sale in Britain. Known as Aristotle’s Complete Master-Piece, the book has little to do with ...

People in the 18th century were expected to look neat, elegant and have a natural shape, according to a University of Exeter academic who has found the period saw important changes in how society ...

Legend has it that Jacques III Pineau de Viennay, Baron de Luce, an intendant of Louis XV, was so bowled over by his new home, built by engineer Mathieu de Bayeux between 1760 and 1764, that the first ...

Big ball gowns, corsets and frilly heels bring us back to the era of Marie Antoinette, as the exhibition “Fashion in the 18th Century: A Fantasized Legacy” opens at the Palais Galliera in Paris.

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene Authors and playwrights in 18th-century Europe helped make science accessible to the common reader. Photo ...

Often, when I see that a book comes directly out of a dissertation, there’s a sinking feeling that it may be arcane and academic in the extreme. The kind of book that’s filled with jargon and overly ...

Garments dating from 1700 to 1792, featured in the exhibition 'La mode du XVIIIe siècle. Un héritage fantasmé' ('18th-Century Fashion. A Fantasized Legacy'), at Palais Galliera, Paris. NICOLAS ...

While some residents want to see the 18th-century farmhouse restored, others argue the site is too far gone and too expensive ...

The Earl of Chesterfield, the 18th-century British statesman and patron of the arts, had a number of concerns about his illegitimate son Philip, but one he revisited often in his posthumously ...