Women smokers did not conform to the nineteenth-century bourgeois ideal of their sex. They were considered to be...

Scraps of cloth from clothing that had been worn out and discarded were for a long time the raw material used in the...

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, the 'Oriental Style' and exotic foreign accessories from far-off...

The Romans had a dedicated postal service to convey messages and letters. In the Middle Ages this work was taken...

In the nineteenth century railways transformed the way people travelled and goods were transported. In 1825 the...

This clock, made in 1831 and put into a picture based on an engraving, shows Emperor Franz II (I) at the desk of his...

Pictures from ancient and medieval times make it clear that the plough was an important tool in working the soil for...