Colin Jones

Madame de Pompadour: The Other Cheek

Colin Jones and Emily Richardson reveal a little-known collection of obscene and irreverent 18th-century drawings targetting Madame de Pompadour, the favourite mistress of Louis XV of France.

Published October 17 2011

The Fabrication of Madame de Pompadour

Colin Jones discusses the art and artifice of the leading mistress of Louis XV.

Published October 22 2002

The French and their Revolution

Richard Cooled

Published September 30 1998

Vie de Chien

Colin Jones on an astonishing new study of medieval piety

Published July 31 1983

Developing the History of Taste

Colin Jones on a powerful new collection of essays providing a new angle on the history of the 18th century.

Published May 31 1983

The French Ministerial Bureaucracy 1770-1850

Revolution and Red Tape by Clive H. Church

Published March 1 1982

The New Treatment of the Insane in Paris

Published October 1 1980

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.