A Couple Renovated Their Kitchen—and Stumbled Upon Buried Treasure From the 17th Century

The find, which occurred nearly five years ago, came as the couple dug deeper to increase the head height in their long-house ...
Artnet News

3 Outrageous Garments That Shocked 17th-Century Spain

In the 1600s, Spanish women could be barred from church for showing their shoulders, fined for the size of their skirts, or ...
Artnet

Rare 17th-Century Paper Cutouts Found Under Floorboards of Tudor House

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...
Phys.org

Britain began industrializing in the 17th century—more than 100 years earlier than history books claim

Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial ...
Mental Floss

A 17th-Century Noblewoman's Rare Poems About War-Torn England Can Be Read Online

Hester Pulter wasn't famous for anything in particular, but the 17th-century aristocrat's poems have historical value for other reasons. Pulter wrote about science, religion, politics, the English ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England’s Rejection of Religious Images

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.
Game Rant

Best Movies Set In The 17th Century

Sid was born, did some stuff, then decided to become a writer. He finds respite in the sweet embrace of mass media escapism after having risked his life too many times as a journalist covering ...
CNN

Conservators restore 17th-century portrait of noblewoman to remove cosmetic touch-ups

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...
The Atlantic

The 17th-Century Paper Social Network

It's snarky, constrained and incomprehensibly social! So, like, basically, Twitter for the 1670s. This month, 323 years ago, an English biographer scribbled notes to another scholar -- or rather, he ...
Altoona Mirror

Saint Francis University professor Woznak retires after 40 years of teaching

Two years ago, Saint Francis University professor John Woznak presented a paper at a Westchester University English ...
Game Rant

Best Games Set In The 17th Century

Jerrad Wyche is a writer, designer, and producer hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His favorite video games include Mass Effect 2, Inside, Pokémon Soul Silver, Spelunky, and Call of Duty 4: Modern ...