
Marking Time: Objects in Early Modern History
During the early modern period, people’s relationship with the concept of time and their personal experience of it…
During the early modern period, people’s relationship with the concept of time and their personal experience of it…
How do we measure the days of our lives? Through more than 450 objects from an extraordinary private…
In the summer of 2020, we asked dress history enthusiasts from across the globe to get crafty (18th…
In this blog, Amy de la Haye gives readers a taste of her latest book, The Rose in…
The Pocket Design Competition 2020 Unlike the pockets found on women’s clothing today, pockets in the 18th-century were…
Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe discuss the life and legacy of Ernest Gimson on the 100th…
Matisse and Decoration is a new book by John Klein, an internationally acclaimed specialist in the art of…
A new book, Georg Jensen: Scandinavian Design for Living, accompanies an exhibition of the same name opening at…
Glenn Adamson — ‘Keep the Corean pot in memory.’ With those words, the great potter Bernard Leach imparted…
A new book Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X reconstructs the spectacular, grand-scale textiles designed in about…
The Victoria and Albert Museum (in collaboration with the Bard Graduate Center, New York) is staging the first…
Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international centre, home to multiple cultures, faiths and languages. Jerusalem, 1000-1400: Every People…
One of this winter’s landmark exhibitions has been Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, at the Victoria and…
‘For the first time in centuries, France could not dictate the course of fashion’ – Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell To…
‘The great age of the royal progress ended with the Civil War, but members of the royal family…