George I

Irked by both his character and his tendency towards corruption, Jonathan Swift spent years ruthlessly satirising Isaac Newton.

For over a century, the crowns of Hanover and Great Britain were worn by the same king. While the British public remained largely indifferent to Hanoverian affairs, politicians grew to resent them.

H.T. Dickinson introduces a Bishop who held many liberal views,  and was much disliked by his brethren.

Hanoverian precedents for the wayward behaviour of royal younger brothers.

The first King George was born on 28 May 1660.

A mysterious child from northern Germany, portrayed by William Kent on the King’s Grand Staircase, became one of the sensations of the Georgian age, as Roger Moorhouse explains.