18th century london

Pieter Angillis ( 1685 – 1734 ) form the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Detail: market, produce, dog, cart, wheel barrow, baskets, hawkers, children, food, cooking, stre…

Wm Cormsc pointed to a ship, telling a six year old Anne they would be sailing to America.

Summary Evelina is on a mission and that mission is to avoid Lord Orville at all costs. In the past this mission would be more easily accomplished but since being guests together, Lord Orville is difficult to avoid and Evelina is finding it difficult to come up with excuses out of his invitations. Evelina is further upset when she finds that she is included in an anonymous poem, Beauties of the Wells as the most beautiful woman in town. Lord Orville’s polite jealousy is further revealed when…

Go inside the royally luxe set design of Hulu's The Great (starring Elle Fanning) with production designer Francesca Di Mottola.

Nicolas Raguenet paints the 18th century city

Unplanned housing “Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.” – Samuel Johnson (2) Every visitor to 18th-century London was impressed by …

The Thames, late 18th century

If you like history, romance or shopping, you will certainly enjoy today’s article by romance author, Regan Walker. Oxford Street in London is one of the settings in Regan’s new release…

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London