Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what can ...

Claire Pepper has released James and Ann Children of a Lead Miner, 1841, which tells the story of two children who lived in ...

A rare 19th-century musical game - one of only three known to still be in existence and the only invention of any kind to be patented by a woman in that year - is to go on display to the public ...

An exhibition of Palestinian dress and embroidery is set to open at V&A Dundee, as the city marks 45 years since it was twinned with Nablus in the West Bank. Thread Memory: Embroidery From Palestine ...

A dress worn by Nadia El-Nakla, Dundee City councillor and wife of former first minister Humza Yousaf, is also set to be featured in the exhibit. She wore the thobe when Yousaf was sworn into Bute ...

People are being invited to take a tour of Scotland in the mid-19th century through the online records of National Records of Scotland.

The exhibition explores the ways tatreez – an ancient practice of elaborate hand-embroidery – has shaped and expressed Palestinian national identity since the late 19th century and evolved ...

Wool coats and 19th century hats: See costumes soldiers will wear at big Army parade Of the 7,000 soldiers from bases around the world that will appear in the parade, around a thousand will don ...

We invite contributions that explore the multiple ways Irish and Scottish writers have perceived and addressed the perpetual flux and flow of aquatic worlds, from the late 19th century to the present, ...

A rare collection of 19th century ceramics recovered from a shipwreck is to go on display for the first time. The SS Eagle sank off the Isle of Arran on November 28, 1859 after colliding with a ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.

The Rijksmuseum is presenting a rare 19th-century condom featuring a raunchy print in its new show "Safe Sex?" ...