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Guest Post: The Gin Lane Gazette That mischievous cartoonist...
Guest Post: The Gin Lane Gazette That mischievous cartoonist and scribe Ade Teal is featured on pioneering publishing project Unbound at the moment with his most excellent Georgian miscellany The Gin...
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At the Harp and Hoboy: John Walsh, Music Publisher Where has...
At the Harp and Hoboy: John Walsh, Music Publisher Where has the time gone? First there was Christmas, then these book thingys which seem to keep you very busy indeed. Then, as some of you know I...
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Review: A Grim Almanac of Georgian London The History Press were...
Review: A Grim Almanac of Georgian LondonThe History Press were kind enough to send me A Grim Almanac of Georgian London by Graham Jackson and Cate Ludlow. Cate’s obsession with the darker side of...
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Event: A Coffeehouse Tour Dr Matthew Green is rather passionate...
Event: A Coffeehouse TourDr Matthew Green is rather passionate about coffeehouses, and coffee history. So passionate, in fact he wrote his PhD on the subject. On Saturday, he’ll be leading a very...
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Saartjie Baartman, The Hottentot Venus Throughout Georgian...
Saartjie Baartman, The Hottentot VenusThroughout Georgian London there are many ‘freaks’, whose main source of income was displaying themselves: tall or strong women, tiny people, the prematurely aged...
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William Freeman: A West Indian Englishman At the turn of the...
William Freeman: A West Indian EnglishmanAt the turn of the eighteenth century, London was becoming increasingly diverse. International trade meant that foreigners were a common sight on the streets,...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Destroying Angel Lady Mary...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Destroying AngelLady Mary Wortley Montagu would not only introduce London to innoculation against smallpox, but also her series of ‘Turkish Embassy Letters’ make up...
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What folly is this?: Animal Welfare in Georgian London The cruel...
What folly is this?: Animal Welfare in Georgian LondonThe cruel treatment of animals is a sad constant even now, but dramatic changes during London’s Georgian period show the emergence of a modern...
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The History of the Female Shipwright In 1773 Mary Lacy, a...
The History of the Female ShipwrightIn 1773 Mary Lacy, a married woman in Deptford published her autobiography, The History of the Female Shipwright. It was an instant success, but soon forgotten. Of...
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Party Pieces: Temporary Architecture of Celebration from the...
Party Pieces: Temporary Architecture of Celebration from the Restoration to the RegencyFor reasons regarding image distribution (it’s a changing field at the moment) I won’t post the slides. However,...
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The foundation of the Bank of England and the creation of our...
The foundation of the Bank of England and the creation of our National DebtLast night there was a lot of noise on Twitter about the national debt, and how one politician in particular appeared to...
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Georgian London Rides Again!
As some of you will know, Posterous turned up its toes earlier this year, and it’s taken a while to get the blog back up and running in any format. Things are busier than ever, and we’re less than two...
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Lost London - The Egyptian Hall
Eighteenth century Piccadilly was a place for all sorts of curiosities to be displayed. Almost opposite Burlington House, at 170–173 Piccadilly, a Starbucks coffee shop now sits where William Bullock’s...
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The Origins of St James's
St James’s Square has now been a bastion of London clubs and institutions for over a century. But at the time of the Restoration when Charles II, not wanting to live in the Whitehall that had witnessed...
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On Heroes
This post is off topic for Georgian London, so I totally understand if you don’t read on from here!The recent abuse suffered on Twitter by feminist Caroline Criado-Perez is abhorrent. Disgusting, vile,...
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In The Dark
What a week. When the estimable Adrian Tinniswood suggested I take a group of visually and hearing impaired students on a week’s tour around Georgian London there was no way to know what to expect. I...
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Georgian London: Into the Streets
Yes, it’s finally here. Georgian London: Into the Streets is now on the streets (via your preferred book purchasing method).Publication day blogging is a bit like arriving at an exam and being given a...
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Independent: Book of a Lifetime
I wrote this for the Independent this weekend, on my choice for a Book of a Lifetime.As a historian of eighteenth century London, it would be too predictable to choose Samuel Johnson’s great Dictionary...
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A Brief Guide for Speakers New To Addressing Blind and Deaf Groups
Recently I taught a week long course for blind students on London’s Georgian history and ordinary life during the period, including living life disabled. Whilst the majority of my students had become...
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Ada Lovelace Day - Mrs Margaret Bryan, Astronomer of Blackheath
Mrs Margaret Bryan was born, it is thought, some time before 1760. She had two daughters, and was married to Mr Bryan. In her thirties, she opened a school for girls near Hyde Park Corner. But Margaret...
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