AMHERST — A large, 18th-century portrait of an English nobleman that was vandalized in the spring is being restored and should be back on display at the Jones Library next month. Police were alerted ...

A lot of work goes into maintaining a proper library, let alone a proper library housed in a mid-18th century Baroque palace and featuring thousands of texts dating as far back as the 1300s. If that ...

From Jan. 23 to Aug. 2, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections presents their first ever educational board games exhibition titled “‘Most Agreeable & Rational Recreation’: Two Centuries of ...

THANKS to its sense of form and powers of consolidation, eighteenth-century England is one of the great eras or cultures that seem fairly possible to encompass. Civilized, urbane, we say of it; or, ...