Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a ...

Is there anything better than self-care by the sea? UK-based skincare brand Haeckels is on a mission to reintroduce the local community of Margate Beach to the healing powers of the ocean. The region ...

I SHALL not go further into the sea today. I shall lie here, with my feet in the ocean and my elbows on shore, feeling aggrieved. This has nothing to do with advancing years. I still have the use of ...

Victorian Bathing Machines: So Men Couldn’t Get Their Rocks Off In the 18th and 19th centuries, entire fleets of machines kept beachgoing women from doing the walk of shame. Victorian Bathing Machines ...