The Sun12 天
European seaside town that ‘hasn’t left the 19th century’ with quaint resorts and 50p ...
IF YOU want a European beach holiday with white sand ... of quaint seaside towns that do not seem to have quite left the 19th Century". The former fishing village became a significant trading ...
Cambridge University Press4 年
An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe
Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's ...
culture.pl6 年
The Map Is Not the Territory: How Satirists Charted Poland When It Wasn't on the Map
In 1795, the last of a series of partitions effectively wiped Poland off the map of Europe. Naturally the country and its citizens didn't vanish altogether, and the so-called 'Polish question' was an ...
Artnet news1 个月
19th Century European Art and Old Masters
Group Portrait of Catherine, Charlotte, and Susan Mordaunt, daughters of Sir John Mordaunt, 7th Bt., small full-length, in white dresses, with a dog in a wood ...
Brandeis University4 年
Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-century Eastern European ...
A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...
BBC4 年
Belgium ends 19th-Century telegram service
The fact that this 19th-Century technology is still up and running in the age of Instagram and Snapchat may seem rather odd - especially when you consider that the UK, which invented the telegram ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this ...
BBC4 年
Notre Dame: Cathedral's spire will be restored to 19th Century design
Its replacement, designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was built in the mid-19th Century. Ulf Mejergren Architects One architects' firm drew up plans for a rooftop pool on the cathedral ...