T he mythical town of Brigadoon manifests for one day every century, but Schmigadoon! — that high-fructose fever dream of a town where life is a mashup of (immersive) mid-centur ...
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, ...
It is a 320-mile round trip from Cork to Dublin, and, for those carrying precious metals by coach or on horseback in the 18th century, a dangerous one. It could be expensive in other ways too as every ...
And as late as the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that any man who was in love with his wife was probably too dull to be loved by another woman. When did romance enter the ...