A highly unusual 17th-century painting featuring a Black sitter and a white sitter side by side is on rare public view.

But gratuitous harm to women, children ... Neff puts it—suited the “brutally imperfect world” of 17th-century Europe. The times are troubled now. Grotius’s injunction to fight as if ...

Amanda Foreman analyses the seventeenth century persecution of women as witches ... The explosion of witch trials during the 17th century in Europe is explored using vivid illustrations of ...

When World War II broke out, American women joined the effort by manning ... MORE: Descendant of 17th century colonist helps find ancestor's remains using radar at Gloria Dei Church cemetery ...

The court’s decision is not recorded, but the case encapsulates the divided opinion of divination in the 17th century ... central and western Europe in the 15th century and many claimed to ...

In so doing, he cemented stereotypes of the witch that share a direct line to the ideas of witches—and women—today ... composition that was one of the most influential in 17th-century Western European ...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century ... (NHS) in Europe created a much ...

According to researchers, their early results indicate the existence of as many as 20 graves dating back to the early 9th century ... suggest the women had ties to continental Europe.

a fashionable item of the period that he referred to as women’s horns. The conservation work on the Swayne books involved carefully detaching bindings dating from the 17th century, gently ...

To start this endeavor, Mrs. Pinchot and her collector friends loaned or donated over 500 pieces to the National Museum, “many of them old, rare and costly, and covered a very-diversified field of ...