Its ornate dining room reflects the elaborate setting in which high-society diners were taking their meals by the 17th century. To judge from the stature of some writers, table manners were no ...

Whether you're looking for a classic bistro table for two or a larger farmhouse design for entertaining, you need to read ...

Painting by Jan Steen (1626-79) depicting a woman seated behind a table holding a pot from which she ladles out food to a standing child.

Starring in season 3 of Netflix's Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives, Shalini Passi’s home brings to mind the nest of a ...

Host Cafe in London offers a remarkable twist on your usual coffee spot, nestled within the grandeur of a 17th-century church designed ... catch-ups alike, with table bookings for four-hour ...

With more and more of us swapping out travelling by air in favour of more eco-friendly forms of transport, now is the perfect ...

Host Cafe in London is a rather unique coffee shop, nestled within the stunning 17th-century St Mary Aldermary church in London, which was designed by renowned English architect Sir Christopher Wren.

William Lee invents the knitting machine. First human flight, according to popular myth. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, Brother Elmer (a monk at Malmesbury Abbey) creates a glider from wood and ...

The design of this Essay is to serve both as an illustration of English history in the seventeenth century and as a contribution to the history of political ideas. English political thinking from the ...

In the kitchen of the actress Melissa George’s 17th-century ... the dining room came with the home, known as Callemant d’Autane. George found the Louis XVI chairs on a secondhand furniture ...

This time of year, many black walnut trees’ leaves may have black spots, turn yellow and begin to drop. This is commonly known as anthracnose, a fungal disease that causes trees to drop their leaves ...

The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. This volume, first published in 2000, focuses on the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century England before, ...