If you weren’t aware, Cambridge is lousy with libraries. Everywhere you turn, there is another college’s library. Ideally, I would have loved to visit them all. Unfortunately, I had limited time in Cambridge, though, and many of them are for their own students and scholars. […]

I featured Pierre Balmain and the House of Balmain for one of my style history posts at the beginning of the month. Many fashion houses were started during, between, and immediately after the First and Second World Wars. However, many of those houses closed those […]

St. Albans Cathedral is one of those fantastic buildings that doesn’t get the attention that it deserves. It looks quite magnificent from the outside, but it gets brushed off quite a lot. However, it is a treasure trove of hidden history and is a must-see. […]

Peter the Great remains one of Russia’s most infamous Tsars. Known for his extensive political, social, and cultural reforms, Peter worked tirelessly to bring Russia into the modern age. However, those ideas didn’t just come from Peter himself. In the 1690s, he travelled extensively to […]

Queen Victoria has been represented far and wide in art. She sits outside both Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace in sculpture form. She is carved literally all over the place in the V&A (of course). Not to mention a million serious and stark photographs throughout […]