This Edwardian Baroque Bank is a beautiful example of early 20th Century British architecture. This bank closed nearly two decades ago.

What is it about haunting photos from the past that makes them so impossible to forget? Is it their dreamlike quality?

This Edwardian Baroque Bank is a beautiful example of early 20th Century British architecture. This bank closed nearly two decades ago.

The Evolution of Women's Workwear Through the Decades

If you’ve kept an eye on home design trends over the past few years, you’ll know that everything from 1980s-era squiggles to retro 1960s patterns have re-entered the style rotation — oftentimes paired together, no less. The term “decade dabblers” has officially entered the 21st century interior lexicon, too, as renters and homeowners harness decorating with blasts from multiple decades past.

What is it about haunting photos from the past that makes them so impossible to forget? Is it their dreamlike quality?

As part of the Celebrating Britain’s Transport Textile project, London Transport Museum curator Georgia Morley has researched the hard-wearing and distinctively patterned fabrics that have covered Britain’s transport seating since the 1920s

As part of the Celebrating Britain’s Transport Textile project, London Transport Museum curator Georgia Morley has researched the hard-wearing and distinctively patterned fabrics that have covered Britain’s transport seating since the 1920s

Some historical photos can't be explained. The more we look at them, the more disturbing and unexplainable they become.

Afternoon Dress, from Les Modes; February 1910

These paintings by Charles Schridde were a prominent feature in a Motorola consumer electronics ad campaign in 1961 and 1962, they ran in the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazines. The ad copy was full of the usual electronic advances only Motorola's engineers had managed to develop: TVs featured a Golden Tube Sentry Unit which eliminated the warm-up power surge (competitor RCA had Automatic Scene Control for balanced screen brightness); Hi-Fi sets featured Vibrasonic System Sound and Dynamic Sound Focus so you can enjoy concert-hall realism from your LPs; all the cabinets had exclusive designs by Drexel from their American Treasury Collection. Such technical advances required the right setting in the ads and Charles Schridde's art captured the feel perfectly. Motorola's consumer research found that the pictures were a big hit with the public and with the 1962 campaign each ad had some copy describing the interior design and building architecture at the bottom of the ad. The artwork does seem rather incongruous though because they all show futuristic settings (possibly inspired by Charles Lautner) with huge amounts of space but the electronics and especially the TVs with their small screens belong firmly in the sixties.

The Evolution of Women's Workwear Through the Decades

The Edwardian era was once elegantly described as, a "leisurely time when women wore picture hats and did not vote, when the rich were not ashamed to live

A collection of over 51,000 world photos covering decades is available online.

These paintings by Charles Schridde were a prominent feature in a Motorola consumer electronics ad campaign in 1961 and 1962, they ran in the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazines. The ad copy was full of the usual electronic advances only Motorola's engineers had managed to develop: TVs featured a Golden Tube Sentry Unit which eliminated the warm-up power surge (competitor RCA had Automatic Scene Control for balanced screen brightness); Hi-Fi sets featured Vibrasonic System Sound and Dynamic Sound Focus so you can enjoy concert-hall realism from your LPs; all the cabinets had exclusive designs by Drexel from their American Treasury Collection. Such technical advances required the right setting in the ads and Charles Schridde's art captured the feel perfectly. Motorola's consumer research found that the pictures were a big hit with the public and with the 1962 campaign each ad had some copy describing the interior design and building architecture at the bottom of the ad. The artwork does seem rather incongruous though because they all show futuristic settings (possibly inspired by Charles Lautner) with huge amounts of space but the electronics and especially the TVs with their small screens belong firmly in the sixties.

These paintings by Charles Schridde were a prominent feature in a Motorola consumer electronics ad campaign in 1961 and 1962, they ran in the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazines. The ad copy was full of the usual electronic advances only Motorola's engineers had managed to develop: TVs featured a Golden Tube Sentry Unit which eliminated the warm-up power surge (competitor RCA had Automatic Scene Control for balanced screen brightness); Hi-Fi sets featured Vibrasonic System Sound and Dynamic Sound Focus so you can enjoy concert-hall realism from your LPs; all the cabinets had exclusive designs by Drexel from their American Treasury Collection. Such technical advances required the right setting in the ads and Charles Schridde's art captured the feel perfectly. Motorola's consumer research found that the pictures were a big hit with the public and with the 1962 campaign each ad had some copy describing the interior design and building architecture at the bottom of the ad. The artwork does seem rather incongruous though because they all show futuristic settings (possibly inspired by Charles Lautner) with huge amounts of space but the electronics and especially the TVs with their small screens belong firmly in the sixties.

The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries — from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built — and then lost — over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe, stretching from Hungary to Spain, and parts of the New World and the Far East. The Habsburgs continued to dominate Central Europe through the First World War. Historians often depict the Habsburgs as leaders of a ramshackle empire. But Rady reveals their enduring power, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace, and patrons of learning. The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that forever changed Europe and the world. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781541644502 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 08-25-2020 Pages: 416 Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.40(d)About the Author Martyn Rady is Masaryk professor of Central European history at University College London. A leading expert on Central Europe, he is the author of The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction, The Emperor Charles V, and other books on Hungarian and Romanian history. He lives in Kent, UK.Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Maps ix The Habsburg Family Tree xi A Note on Names xvii Introduction: An Emperor's Library 1 1 Castle Habsburg and the 'Fortinbras Effect' 11 2 The Holy Roman Empire and the Golden King 21 3 Losing Place and Forging a Past 31 4 Frederick III: Saturn and Mars 41 5 Maximilian and the Colour-Coded Kings 51 6 Charles V: Ruler of the World 63 7 Hungary, Bohemia, and the Protestant Challenge 75 8 Philip II: The New World, Religious Dissent, and Royal Incest 85 9 Don John and the Galleys of Lepanto 97 10 Rudolf II and the Alchemists of Prague 107 11 The Triumph of the Heretics 117 12 Ferdinand II, the Holy House, and Bohemia 127 13 The Thirty Years 'World War' 137 14 The Abnormal Empire and the Battle for Vienna 147 15 Spain's Invisible Sovereigns and the Death of the Bewitched King 159 16 The Theatre of the Baroque 169 17 Maria Theresa, Automata, and Bureaucrats 179 18 Merchants, Botanists, and Freemasons 189 19 Vampirism, Enlightenment, and the Revolution from Above 199 20 Archduchesses and the Habsburg Low Countries 209 21 Censors, Jacobins, and The Magic Flute 219 22 Metternich and the Map of Europe 229 23 1848: Von Neumann's Diary and Radetzky's March 243 24 Franz Joseph's Empire, Sisi, and Hungary 255 25 Maximilian, Mexico, and Royal Deaths 269 26 The Politics of Discontent and the 1908 Jubilee 279 27 Explorers, Jews, and the World's Knowledge 291 28 The Hunter and the Hunted: Franz Ferdinand and Bosnia 301 29 World War and Dissolution 313 Conclusion 325 Acknowledgments 331 Credits for Illustrations 333 Abbreviations 335 Further Reading 337 Notes 345 Index 377 Show More

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The sealed-off space contained original portraits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The '90s are back! The 1890s that is. With all the retro-fetishizing that's been going on, it won't be long until we're pushing our nostalgia into the Victorian era. These cool and inspiring pieces are poised to make a comeback, once everyone's completely moved on from platform boots and bedazzled jorts.

Did you find any inspiration from some of the photos and links from the last decade for The Challenge? Just remember, right now I am gathering info for you so that you can see what decades you wou…

1907 – This dress was made in mousseline and silk, with effective black stripes running down the length of the gown, finishing with a black border. A very early Drecoll design.

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‘I am not ashamed to own that I think this rude bard of the North the greatest Poet that has ever existed,’ US founding father Thomas Jefferson wrote of the blind 3rd century Scottish poet Ossian, who was almost certainly made up in the 18th century

These opulent globes are out of this world

Opium dens, gunfights, and poverty theater.

Erik Henningsen (Copenhagen, August 29, 1810 - Copenhagen, November 28, 1930) was a Danish painter and illustrator. He also depicted the lighter aspects of human life, as in his paintings of street life in Copenhagen. During the two first decades of the 20th century he mainly painted genre works from the lives of the bourgeoisie. [Bukowski’s Auctions - Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 137 cm]

Women of the 1890s wore large puffed sleeves, bell-shaped skirts with tight waists, and suits based on an hourglass figure. Increased activity brought simple new designs for sport and day wear.

The deadly disease—and later efforts to control it—influenced trends for decades

In the mid-17th century, Wenceslaus Hollar published this series of engravings depicting the costume of women in England. These images record a contemporary view of the costume of women, a subject which fascinated the artist.

Possibly one of the most iconic images of a woman of the Georgian era wearing a riding habit has to be that of Lady Seymour Worsley. So, with that in mind, we thought we would take a look at this f…

This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de siècle. These daughters of today, juvenile spinsters and modern girls, as the press variously termed them,…

The Evolution of Women's Workwear Through the Decades