Novelists do it all the time. But for the past five years, Washington figurative painter Judy Jashinsky has been imagining the life of someone else: a 17th-century Italian painter named Artemisia ...

In the 17th century, a prolific English writer named Alice Thornton cataloged her life in four versions of her autobiography. These memoirs incorporate pivotal moments from British history, like the ...

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Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them. In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth (1630-c.1693) spoke out against her ...

What began as a routine day of fieldwork in northern Poland has turned into a discovery worthy of a museum vault. Two local farmers working their land in Bukowiec Wielki, in the Warmian–Masurian ...

A series of living history events is set to return to the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre this summer, offering visitors ...