Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand —Find out what really went on behind the stately walls of the British manor house a century ago— A fascinating glimpse of life behind the velvet ...

THIS book contains the latest of the well-known series of public lectures arranged by the History Department of King's College, London. “Edwardian England” may be said to include the first decade of ...

If Casa Loma, the Edwardian castle perched above the modern city of Toronto, had been built in United States, no one would have batted an eye. At five acres, it wouldn't compete with the American odes ...

Last year, Tracy Chevalier made something of a splash with her novel “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” Set in 17th century Holland, it presented the world of the Dutch painter Vermeer from the vantage ...

It is a truth seldom acknowledged that few subjects fascinate as consistently as the peculiar domestic and social arrangements of other cultures, particularly when those cultures are in many respects ...

Family heirlooms continue to be a common theme for our reader’s submissions. This month includes a fine-quality 19th-century Czarist Russian porcelain dessert plate. An English Edwardian silver and ...

British writer Gillian Freeman, who ventured outside the mainstream to write a landmark work of gay literature that is credited with helping to liberalize British attitudes toward homosexuality, died ...