Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Jerusalem Demsas: You’ve probably heard the name Horace Mann. He was a 19th-century reformer who championed the abolition of ...

The Chemin des Dames is a ridge road in northern France that was the site of several major battles during World War I, most ...

Paris is a city where even taking a walk down the street is an experience in itself, from grand Haussmannian boulevards to ...

From a luxury product for the very rich, glass gradually became more widely produced and affordable. It is for this reason that a volume of 18th century material has survived. For today’s collector, ...