The heyday of melamine dinnerware was in the 1940s and 1950s. Kaye LaMoyne designed the highly successful Melmac lines ...

A Luxembourg museum has scooped three portraits by 18th century painter Monique Daniche, featuring the elite of Strasbourg ...

What was candy like in colonial America? Candy today is popular during the holidays. We have different kinds of candy that we ...

In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...

The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.

Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 ...

While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

Christina Trevanion is the much-loved host of Bargain Hunt but behind the scenes, she is more than a renowned auctioneer. The former host of Travelling Auctioneers, 43, is a mother to two daughters ...

One of the most, if not delicate, important task was that of the ‘handle-fixer’. His or her job was to ensure that the jug, teapot, cup or whatever, handle was fixed to the body with one hundred per ...

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs shifting to reflect the times.

You turn 18, and suddenly people start throwing around the word “legal adult.” An 18th birthday is a big one; it may be the biggest one. It comes with a long list of new freedoms and many new ...