Georgian

Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.

Tim Knox looks at how the explosion of interest in all things Chinese in 18th-century Britain found a centrepiece in the royal gardens of George III.

John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.

Roger Knight looks at the National Maritime Museum's acquistion of the papers of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

Jeremy Black takes a fresh look at the career and reputation of the 'great outsider' of Hanoverian Britain.

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.

Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.

A look at the Georgian Group, who campaign for the protection of ancient buildings.

Penelope Corfield finds that economic progress and new self-awareness in language and gesture disturbed the tranquility of the ‘Age of Elegance'.