Princeton University

Thomas Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture in 18th-Century Britain | A&A Lecture Series

Fashion in eighteenth-century Britain had to do with much more than what people wore, designating social class, relating to trade and industry, and being inextricable from ideas of time and change.
Le Monde.fr

Unraveling 18th-century fashion at the Palais Galliera

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 ...
The Guardian

It should shame us that Jews live in fear in 21st-century Britain

Zaki Cooper and Susan Saffer respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article on antisemitic attacks, and John Reizenstein and Liz Fewings to an article by David Davidi-Brown Jonathan Freedland writes a timely ...
Military.com

Muskets Crack, Drums Echo as Boston Marks 250 Years Since British Evacuation

BOSTON (AP) — Reenactors in 18th-century military coats and tricorn hats filled the pews of one of the nation's oldest Catholic Churches on Tuesday before firing muskets outside and marching through ...
Architectural Record

In Belgium, an 18th-Century Religious Compound Becomes Home to the University of Hasselt’s Architecture School

In 1944, as Allied forces liberated Europe, the church was accidentally bombed and destroyed. An art gallery took over parts of the complex in the 1990s, but much of it continued to fall into ...
Vogue

The Remix: Gainsborough’s 18th-Century Portraits Versus the Runway

It can be easy to romanticize the past—especially when you are looking at beautiful images featuring enchanting garments. Such is the case with the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. The portraits of ...
The Economist

Britain’s worst political scandal of this century

In retrospect, the signs were there. In February 2025 Peter Mandelson was asked by the Financial Times about his relationship with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The soon-to-be British ...
Forbes

The Artist Who Captured 18th Century Science Demonstrations

We’ve known for a long time that the planets travel around the sun, but there was a period where this was still new, exciting, and worthy of public demonstrations. Eighteenth century artist Joseph ...
The Washington Post

Line drawn by 19th-century Britain stokes Pakistan-Taliban tension

To Pakistan, it’s a fixed border. To Afghanistan, it’s merely hypothetical. It’s the Durand Line: a legacy of the British Empire that’s dividing the neighbors today. For weeks, Pakistani and Afghan ...
Time

British Fashion Has Always Been About More Than Just Looks

Four female fashion models, who are wearing some pieces from Mary Quant's new autumn/winter collection, London, May 1975 On Saturday, a new fundraising gala will take place at the British Museum, ...
Rolling Stone

David Bowie Was Secretly Writing a Musical About 18th-Century London Before He Died

David Bowie secretly began working on a musical set in 18th-century London in the months leading up to his death in 2016, according to new notes discovered locked in his New York City office. Bowie ...