Since at least 2013, a rumor has circulated online that illegal gambling dens in 18th-century England hired people to swallow dice in the event of a police raid.

How about when that student is an orphaned girl, and the teacher is one of 18 th century Venice’s most feted composers? In her debut novel The Instrumentalist, Harriet Constable infuses ...

thanks to landscapes painted by 18th-century artist, John Constable. Many of his most famous works, such as The Hay Wain - ...