Abstract The nineteenth century represents a formative period for the development of historical consciousness in Britain, with texts and, increasingly, images shaping perceptions past. This article examines how Stuart history was interpreted and experienced, through series genre paintings King Charles I his family. It explores Anthony van Dyck's depiction politicized domesticity royal portraitu...

This exhibition review discusses the past Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds (2022) at National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. The project tried to shed light on shared impact that long-silenced traumas and counter-memories have Baltic region, especially from a transnational perspective. A special focus lies oscillations between individual memory public history as participants engage in cre...

Abstract This article argues that American jurists fashioned new understandings about the capacity of states to legislate marriage through regulating intimate lives enslaved and newly freed individuals. does so analyzing creation impact a little-studied 1809 law in New York legalized marriages people—while individuals were still enslaved—as part state's process gradual emancipation, which occur...

THE ROLE OF FAIRIES IN LIVES IRISH PEASANTS AND THEIR DEPICTION SELECTED NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELOGUES
 Life in the nineteenth-century Irish countryside was not easy. peasants lived abject poverty and struggled to make ends meet. They consumed almost only potatoes famines occurred regularly. Peasants often blamed their hardships on fairies, whose various races were supposed inhabit Irelan...

Information about the food and nutrition of Bulgarian population is a different nature - local foreign written sources, travelogues, endowment documents, passionaries, images in miniature monumental paintings, archaeological finds others. Given raw material for its preparation, it falls into several groups plant, animal (from domestic animals hunting), fish, etc. The records data from excavatio...