Georgian

T.H. McGuffe analyses the failure of Admiral Byng to relieve the besieged British forces against French onslaught.

Alan Yorke-Long documents the beginnings of Georgian England's affair with the music of the Hanoverian composer.

A man of deep convictions, George III ruled at a time “when kings were still expected to govern. That he failed to acquire “true notions of common things”, Lewis Namier writes, was “perhaps the deepest cause of his tragedy.”

The seat of monarchs almost since English monarchy began, Windsor Castle owes its familiar outlines to the architect commissioned by King George IV.

Peter Quennell says Hogarth’s great survey of the Humours of an Election is one of the masterpieces of English 18th century painting

Nicholas Lane documents how the big branch banks of today have their origins largely in the numerous private banking partnerships, founded in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Wolf Mankowitz discusses the life and times of one of Britain's most radically successful Georgian industrialists.

William Hogarth’s life was a microcosm of the three main themes of Georgian life, argues Michael Dean.

How rush hour might have looked for commuters in the Georgian era...

Kate Retford explains how the artist Johan Zoffany found ways to promote a fresh image of royalty that endeared him to George III and Queen Charlotte – a relationship he subsequently destroyed.