Here we have an English lidded goblet from 1730-1750. Now the rarest of glass by Ravenscroft dates from 1670, so although this isn’t by the great maker, it’s still exceptionally rare.

A group of divers found a large amount of well-preserved Murano glass vessels underwater off the coast of Bulgaria.

I argue that race was institutionalized beginning in the 18th century as a worldview, a set of culturally created attitudes and beliefs about human group differences. Slavery and the Coming of ...

Some of the rarest surviving 18th Century stained glass in Britain has been refitted at its gothic tomb. The National Trust returned the artwork to The Vyne in Basingstoke, Hampshire, after it was ...

THE HEADLINES A SHARP DISCOVERY. Archaeologists in Burgas, Bulgaria have discovered over 100 glass objects dating back to the ...

Three centuries ago, London lawyer James Puckle dreamed up a gun he hoped would be a hit with the British Navy, and a financial boon for himself. Instead, Puckle’s peculiar creation ...

The 49-room Bantry House, an 18th-century mansion in the far southwest of Ireland, has been in the same family for nearly 300 years.

In multiple areas of life, art and thought, the 18th century was an age of order, classification, laws, formulas, symmetry and grids. Everywhere you look, you find attempts to frame and categorize ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread ...

Bullseye is a celebration of the best of arts and culture in public radio form. Host Jesse Thorn sifts the wheat from the chaff to bring you in-depth interviews with the most revered and ...

Apple could very well be close to achieving that future with a wearable heads-up display called "Apple Glass." Apple has a long way to go before it can release a sophisticated pair of glasses that ...