York Castle Museum's Fashion Gallery has been remodelled and enhanced for 2025, with new items and interpretations, to ...

During the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that apples had aphrodisiac qualities and used them in love rituals. If a woman ...

How a tradition that started off as a way to find a partner became a day for the industry to celebrate itself.

February the Fourteenth has been a day to give love to others in the name of Saint Valentine. But who is he? Is Valentine's a religious holiday…or Pagan all the way? Where did chocolate come in? Who’s ...

The waters of the River Ebro have long shaped not only the landscapes but also the gastronomy of Catalonia’s Terres de l’Ebre ...

From lively after-hour gatherings to outdoor lantern tours, here are some events that could be your ticket to breaking free ...

A Harlequin crinoline dress, moiré Ottoman pants ... the social and political order that existed in France from the late Middle Ages until the French Revolution, seamlessly merged, underlining ...

Analysis: St Gobnait was an Irish female saint associated with bees in the Middle Ages and is still celebrated ... standing above a beehive and her dress even features an intricate honeycomb ...

I’d tucked my body away for so long, conforming to my husband’s expectations — anything to maintain the peace. But now, ...

Dresses, jewellery and other fashion accessories are set among vases, liturgical objects, armour, tapestries, furniture and rich ornaments from the Middle Ages to the Empire, from the Renaissance ...

The exhibition unfolds across four time periods — the Byzantine period and Middle Ages, the Renaissance ... In one room, a Versace shirt dress is placed in the centre of a reconstruction ...