The founder of the Rains fashion brand has restored a 19th-century industrialist’s summer house, flooding it with sun — and vibrant decor — during the dark Danish winter ...

Winston Churchill, a man of great passions, including fine dining and spirits, had a special fondness for gin and tonic. According to him, this refreshing combination was not only a remedy against ...

But in the history of art, British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century ...

BritBox is a great way to catch a lot of the best things that air on British television ... A Thousand Blows is set in 19th-century London, and follows the brutal world of boxing at that time.

In light of a looming recession, company budgets across industries shrink at the expense of key brand-building marketing ... of the creative marketing agency 19th & Park, the two agreed that ...

(IN BRIEF) Professor Daisy Hay, a biographer and expert in 18th and 19th-century British literature, has been elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). Hay, a Fellow of the RSL ...

Among its aims, the institute sought to promote British architecture both at home and throughout the British Empire. Alongside other 19th century Royal Charter bodies, it attempted to legitimise ...

There were several changes in the late 19th century, many led by the government, that improved the health of the British public. The government did not intervene immediately. However, in 1848 ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

A new production of "Śluby panieńskie" (Maiden’s Vows), a comedy by 19th-century Polish playwright ... he was inspired by the popular 1970s British sitcom Man About the House, which ...

For Marx the British working class was both a practical inspiration and a challenge. Britain's was the world's first majority proletariat and in the 1840s was also the first to create a mass working ...