The Lost Romance of Dance Cards
If you’ve been watching Netflix’s sauciest new period drama, Bridgerton, your curiosity might have been…
Category Time travel
Before Cher Horowitz had her Computer Closet, Marie Antoinette had the Wardrobe Book
Ask any millennial with a heartbeat for fashion about the 90s cult-classic film, Clueless, and…
I Wish I Could’ve Partied with the Prince of Saint-Germain
If you were living in Paris during the years that followed World War II and liked…
New York’s Secret Caribbean Kingdom (and its Queen)
Peer inside and your senses inevitably tumble inside a place that’s more time capsule than…
Searching for a Lost Wine Village in Paris
Parisians often talk about the great travesty that was the loss of Les Halles, a…
Travelling Modern Europe with a Victorian Railway Guidebook
Are you looking for a way to travel back in time? Well, we haven’t cracked…
The Anti-Nazi Teen Gang that Beat Up Hitler Youth and Danced to Jazz
A band of adolescent music-lovers, swing dancers and snappy dressers– not exactly the type you’d…
A Brief Compendium of Forgotten Christmas Specials
This Christmas is surely all about finding comfort where we can, and for many, that…
Electric Jewellery and the Forgotten Genius who Lit Up Paris
Known as ‘The City of Light’ for nearly two centuries, Paris led the way during the…
The Real Ice Queens: Women Who Conquered the Cold Wearing Corsets
Can’t bear the winter cold anymore? Consider for a moment, this photograph of a woman…
Korean Cowboys of the Old World
Wisemen, dapper dudes, cowboys of the far east– I’m not really sure what to call…
The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making
Where do I start with this photograph? The dapper shoes? The Gene Kelly stance? The delicate…