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I love your blog! I always look for you on my dashboard, and I love how most of your posts are from the actors or Joe Wright so it's behind the scenes as well as what we see on the screen. I could...

Wearing widow's weeds and holding photograph of their loved ones, photos show Victorians in mourning as part of a trend that saw them pictured in the throes of their grief.

The Figments project is a project that was on my wishlist for a long time. It’s a story about one room through different time periods and with different residents. For this project, I started building a set in my studio based around a room with a window – inspired by the window Vermeer used in his paintings.

▪Period Dramas▪ (@period.dramas.lovers) posted on Instagram • Nov 7, 2020 at 9:10am UTC

For as long as humans have been falling asleep, we've been theorizing about how sleep works, what dreams are for, and how to sleep better. But sleep science, even today, reveals that there's still a lot we don't know about the art of sleeping — and…

In her latest column, Sara Motta reflects on women's relationship with their bodies, including their experience of menstruation. Looking back to history, she argues, we begin to unravel the processes of disconnection, separation and estrangement that devalue, silence and make shameful the female body and its cycles.

Part of the appeal of watching period shows like Mad Men and Downton Abbey that happen over the course of many years is observin

For all of my 25 years of teaching art I have introduced my students to the great movements of art. Though vast and dizzying in it's array, I have chosen to start with the Renaissance, and end with...

It’s easy to adopt the world’s definition of success when all you see are the Kylie Jenner’s and Elon Musk’s of the world splattered across magazine covers. But it can come at a great cost.