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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some dads golf, others take up the culinary arts, and more than a few obsess over the household’s thermostat. Jon Townsend’s father had a more esoteric hobby: muzzleloader rifles—the kind from the ...

The ‘one person, one career’ model is a relatively recent phenomenon – centuries ago, many in the middle class had multiple jobs to make ends meet, writes Tawny Paul. The Taylor Report, the UK ...

Designer Clément Lesnoff-Rocard shaped a classic Marais apartment around the owners’ art collection and young children ...