Chatham Revisited
Jeremy Black takes a fresh look at the career and reputation of the 'great outsider' of Hanoverian Britain.
Georgian
Gin and Georgian London
The production of gin was actively encouraged in Britain during the Restoration period, but its increasing grip on the London poor had disastrous effects for the following century. Thomas Maples examines the gin problem and what it took to stem the flow.
Georgian Bath - The Magical Meeting Place
Penelope Corfield examines the city of Bath as a model of social change and urban expansion in Hanoverian England.
Radical Rogues and Blackmailers in the Regency Period
Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.
The Georgian Group
A look at the Georgian Group, who campaign for the protection of ancient buildings.
From Rank to Class: Innovation in Georgian England
Penelope Corfield finds that economic progress and new self-awareness in language and gesture disturbed the tranquility of the ‘Age of Elegance'.
Quack Medicine in Georgian England
Roy Porter looks into medicine in Georgian England where sufferers from the 'Glimmering of the Gizzard' the 'Quavering of the Kidneys' and the 'Wambling Trot' could choose their cures from a cornucopia of remedies.
Black Personalities in Georgian England
Paul Edwards traces the leading black figures of the period.