Bampton in Oxfordshire has served as an outdoor location for the fictional community of Downton Abbey since 2010.

The estate started taking shape in 1913, when English immigrant William Robertson Coe, chairman of the marine insurance company Johnson and Higgins, and his wife, Mai Rogers Coe, an heiress to the ...

Excellent course leader and presenters, fascinating and insightful content, so much more than can be read in a book! Previous V&A Academy Online ... To be new was to be avant-garde, and the early ...

However, as these two books show, the lives they led were ... Her account instead fixes on the collision between two early 20th-century phenomena, Parker and Hollywood, neither nice to be around ...

As Stephen Fry said of the differences between European and American culture: “If you go into an American book shop, by far the biggest section ... make up the top ten most played songs of the 20th ...

The Distance: Dreams and Despair is a historical novel set in the Kootenays and beginning in the early 1900’s. Two Swiss immigrants ... betrayal and the lengths people will go to for justice. The book ...

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The book engages deeply with studio photographs of Hallick in an epoch when that photographic genre was key to what Hassan calls “the technology of American self-fashioning” (21). The end result is a ...

These are the deeply intriguing figures around which leading historian Charu Gupta has woven her compelling new social history of early 20th century north India in her new book Hindi Hindu ...

The flip side of less dining out is more eating ... and they change our culture,” Robert Putnam told me. In the early 20th century, a group of liberal Christians, including the pastor Walter ...

This weighty book of lush interior shots selected and ... was common to photograph them – Victorian, Edwardian and early 20th century London. On top of that, about half the homes in it no ...

In the very early years of the twentieth century, the New York-born painter Emily Noyes Vanderpoel published an intriguing book on color: Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of ...