THANKS to its sense of form and powers of consolidation, eighteenth-century England is one of the great eras or cultures that seem fairly possible to encompass. Civilized, urbane, we say of it; or, ...
THE fifty years which elapsed between 1765 and 1815 cover the most memorable period in modern history, if not in the history of mankind and of human civilization. This half century is one of the great ...
A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...
Two new shows — Apple TV+’s “The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin” and Disney+’s “Renegade Nell” — are centered on highwaymen cavorting around 18th century England. Both series are also ...
Pulling a rabbit out of a hat, well that’s sort of old hat. But what about pulling a rabbit out of a woman’s privates? That is what happened in 1726, when Mary Toft, an illiterate servant, seemed to ...
A. S. Diamond, “Problems of the London Sephardi Community, 1720–1733: Philip Carteret Webb’s Notebooks”, Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (hereafter, ...
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