Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee ...

As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace ...

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The novel in Britain 1815-1914, with emphasis on such authors as Thackeray, the Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, and Conrad. (Not offered 2025-26).

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An intriguing portrait of a black man in the uniform of a military bandsman and wearing a Waterloo medal drew strong competition after emerging at an auction in East Sussex.

This acorn panel may have been originally Netherlandish in design but it certainly came later to England. It is one of eleven such panels used by English binders in the early sixteenth century. The ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

Their reputation traversed oceans, captivating Europe's elite and gracing the wardrobes of the British aristocracy ... The Britain in 19th century could only force its vision upon India because ...

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George Catlin's c. 1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art ...