Roy Porter
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Roy Porter discusses the life of the 18th-century essayist and critic.
Published August 5 2002
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Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists. Published September 16 2001
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Roy Porter discusses how the British Enlightenment paved the way for the modern world. Published March 21 2001
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Katherine Ott
Published April 30 1998
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Roy Porter, in his Longman/History Today lecture, warns of the bad eyesight, poor posture, incomprehensible babblings, addled wits, depravity and worse that may befall those who immerse themselves too much in books.
Published March 1 1998
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‘Bedlam’ has become a by-word for a wild and crazy place, but what is the historical reality behind a distinguished London institution? Roy Porter offers an anniversary portrait.
Published September 30 1997
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Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third millennium. Published November 1 1996
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Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century
Published December 1 1990
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Edited by Stephen Ozment
Published December 1 1990
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Roy Porter argues that historians must re-examine their purpose, between specialised study and general discovery.
Published November 1 1990
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by Peter Quennell
Published February 1 1989
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Roy Porter describes an institution of the mid-18th century designed to care for abandoned infants. Published March 1 1988
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A project aimed at preventing the destruction of key historical events on film.
Published February 1 1988
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'Living high above her bodily wits' - but was the 'madness' of a 15th-century English gentlewoman divine folly, marital stress or the stirrings of a self-conscious feminist?
Published February 1 1988
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Roy Porter discusses the latest paperbacks on revolutions and how the concept shaped the modern world.
Published July 31 1987
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