Ladies & Gents, As my historical wanderings around London may soon be coming to an end, I would like to direct your attention to The Artists Progress, a new blog to be faithfully composed by your...
In his picaresque novel Roderick Random, Tobias Smollett sends the hero to London with hopes of establishing a medical practice. He is met with blunt criticism of his appearance: “I suppose, Sir, yo...
Jane Austen has a lot to answer for. Nowadays I find myself surrounded by mountains of books from or pertaining to Georgian England, and after some serious consideration I have come to the conclusion...
The image above is one of a series published in 1877, perhaps intended to compliment journalist Henry Mayhew's famous social survey London Labour and the London Poor (1849-50). Aside from my o...
[detail from Hogarth, Cunicularii or the Wise Men on Godliman in Consultation (1726)] Superstition played an important role in the seventeenth-century home, and nowhere more strong...
"The painter has no great predilection for the past in itself, but for its representation, for the illustration of its spirit, and for writing history in colours." Heinrich Heine, The Salon (18...
Prostitutes swarm in the streets of this metropolis to such a degree, and bawdy-houses are kept in such an open and public manner (...) a stranger would think [that] the whole town was one gene...
Keep thy Eyes from wand’ring, Man of Frailty, Beware the dang’rous Beauty of the Wanton; Fly their Inticements, Ruin like a Vulture, Waits on their Steps. [Thomas Otway, The Orphan ...
Recent furore about the trials and tribulations which History seems to labour under in the modern education system recalls a question which plagued me during my student years - 'What is the point of ...
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