This large-brimmed sculptural hat by Otto Lucas perfectly balanced the full skirts of the late 1950s. Made from dyed black straw with expert curves, Lucas was a visionary milliner who designed 55,000 hats in his final year and created pieces for royals and British Vogue.

The Long Walk Home by John Weber

I feel like a lot of you might go for this #frockingfabulous #PrabalGurung ode to glam, from 2024. Just imagine it in red though.

"Satchel Paige had a very, very good fastball... but the first time I faced Satchel, he threw me a little breaking ball, just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence. I got a double. When I got to second, Satchel told the third baseman, 'Let me know when

🌙 This painting depicts a captivating moonlit night. In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent vividly described the night sky he viewed from the Saint-Rémy asylum window: 'a nocturnal sky with a stupefying moon' 🎨. As we focus on the lower right corner, we can't help but wonder

56 years ago today, at 3:17 PM, the book gently closed on The Greatest New York Sports Story Ever Told. The 1969 World Champion New York Mets remain one of the most universally beloved teams in baseball history. There are 12 players from the World Series roster (more)

16 October 1781. Yorktown Virginia. The Siege of Yorktown. Lord Cornwallis’s men plead with him to allow them to attempt a desperate escape through the allied line. He relented and, at 4:00am, 350 British soldiers charged the nearest allied trench. They were able to spike six

Marie Antoinette was executed on this day in 1793. Her #Frockingfabulous pearl and diamond pendant smashed its £1million estimate to sell for an eyewatering £28million at Sothebys in 2018. If you wanted to pick up the matching pearls and earrings, they would've cost you another

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻🦇

The Iceberg (1875), by Frederic Edwin Church

Maurice Prendergast, The Grand Canal, Venice

This notice has appeared in The Hastings Observer every 14 October since 1067

#OnThisDay in 1066 William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings ⚔️ With his wife Matilda of Flanders, he started a new Norman dynasty in England and ordered the building of the White Tower at the Tower of London, which remains his most imposing physical legacy. 🏰

Unhappily married to a UK royal, this Gilded Age "dollar princess" became the great-grandmother of Princess Diana https://t.co/UHsrahsGON

As if an encrusted silver dress was not already a lot, it has a scarlet satin coat with a matching silver lining. There is an occasion here of which I can only imagine. Late #1950s Arnold Scaasi @mfaboston

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @LazarusTheatre - FORGIVENESS & REVENGE!

“The power that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you” - Cymbeline (Act 5, Scene 5) #ShakespeareSunday #Cinderella @HollowCrownFans

“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.” - The Winter's Tale (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Atonement @HollowCrownFans

“I will have such revenges” - King Lear (Act 2, Scene 4) #ShakespeareSunday #Mulan @HollowCrownFans

“If you pardon, we will mend.” - AMND (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #ShrektheThird @HollowCrownFans