The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the 18th Century. During this time, paper money was first issued in British Ind ...

Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink sketch that turned out to be by the renowned English ... portrait painters of 18th-century ...

It all started, as most success stories do, with a scallop-edged rattan lampshade. That was British designer Matilda Goad‘s ...

The English had struggled in the previous century over ... Its absolutist kings had ruled without France’s legislature – the Estates General – for more than a century and a half at the time of the ...

The class of 1975 includes a Kubrick masterpiece, the first feature by a Black British director, and the Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’ ...

The Saint Christopher etching appears to be a self-portrait by the artist—also named Christopher—drawing on the provincial 17th and 18th century ... 2023 in the last general election.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in ...

Walton Ford, “Tutto” is on at the Gagosian Gallery in New York from March 6–April 19, 2025.

What did the four-year bachelor’s degree program really mean to me, beyond another achievement to check off? If all I wanted was a job, which schools and programs mattered? If the point was education, ...

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How did this mid-18th century drawing from England end up in the trash in upstate New York?” Indeed, experts soon connected the sketch to George Romney, an 18th-century British artist whose portraits ...