early modern history

A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry. The...

Women’s working conditions increased the odds of them being suspected as witches, according to a new analysis of an English astrologer’s case files...

A Cambridge literary scholar suggests that the handwriting on a Shakespeare First Folio in Philadelphia matches that of the Paradise Lost poet, John...

Ostrich feathers are often associated with glamorous women but this wasn’t always the case. In the sixteenth century, it was Europe’s men who...

Beards are back in fashion. But today’s hipster styles convey rather different messages to the hair men cultivated in the early modern period...

Historic recipe books and physicians’ manuals featuring home-made cures from the 17th century have gone on display to the public for the first time...

First edition of George Psalmanazar’s fictitious History of Formosa, which fooled London society for years with claims of cannibalism and child...

Talking to children about death is a difficult and delicate task, but it is sometimes also necessary. While many adults shy away from discussing the...