To make way for the Bailey, a five-story building called the Purcell House Hotel that dated to the late 19th century was demolished. The Bailey closed in 1980, and in 1983 it was torn down to make ...

Owned and administered by the City of London Corporation, the Old Bailey is one of several buildings housing the Crown Court. A courthouse has existed on the site since the 16th Century.

Essay; Keep Old Traditions or Adapt? A 19th-Century Church Struggles to Survive. A congregation founded to separate itself from the modern world tried relaxing its rules to retain members but lost ...

Dissection was the preferred teaching method in nineteenth-century American medical schools even though, until the final decades of the century, the practice was illegal in most states. In 1989, a ...

Commissioned from artist Xenobia Bailey by the Association for Public Art, as part of the 200th anniversary of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the banners represents a society of late 18th- ...

Spanning six centuries of European art, the May Old Masters auction will include important examples from the 15th to the early 19th century. The earliest work in the sale is a panel from the upper ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.

Hyde London City is a new hotel in a renovated 19th-century building, next to the Old Bailey and close to St Paul's. Restaurant Leydi is on the ground floor. Photos / Supplied.