Chelsea in 50 Buildings by Lucy McMurdo is out now from Amberley Publishing. Buy direct from the publisher, or via Bookshop.org (which sources from independent bookshops and gives us a small ...

In a pivotal year, 1960, Brandeis opened a parking garage for its flagship department store at 16th and Douglas Streets and ...

Alisha Arguello loves the "goosebump" moments. Like finding the "diamonds" in a selection of donated pieces, helping a client part with a family member's item and seeing her consignment store ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

The men and women who lived there may have come ... with a “Great” after his name (it was attached to him in the 16th century). By all accounts, Alfred was a remarkable man and, yes, a great ...

Why the artwork of Lanka’s deposed king in the Constitution of India, and the stories that surround him, are important ...

The 1934 film "It Happened One Night," a romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, is attributed to staring the trend of women wearing men’s style PJs.

Charles Moore / Getty Images Scholars trace denim’s roots to 16th-century Nîmes, in the South of France, and Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Many historians suspect that the word “denim ...

A clothing retailer more than half a century old has been forced to close all but one of its stores. Winfields Outdoors, which sells outdoor clothing and camping equipment, has closed six of its ...