A veritable cornucopia of Georgian delights this week: Three classics from All Things Georgian: venereal disease, fleas and circulating libraries. Bored in the evening? Hours of fun with the myriorama (times were different then). Wordsworth’s sometimes forgotten revolutionary youth. One from the archives of the Journal of Art in Society: How Joseph Wright’s paintings of scientific experiments exploited brilliant […]
Favourites
Thomas Rowlandson, 18th century costumes, electric sex, the assassination of Perceval and fat cows
Thomas Rowlandson at the Queen’s Gallery, London A useful database of 18th-century costumes at demodecouture.com Dr Graham and the Celestial Bed: adding electricity to your love life The murder of Spencer Perceval and my personal favourite: Fat cow paintings
Shelley’s poem, execution in London, Charlotte Charke, the royal ladder, female librarian, bourdaloues, the Sandbys and a scandalous crim con case
So much to choose from this week that I hardly know what to leave out. Here are this week’s hat tips: London’s execution sites, courtesy of The Londonist. @18thCand19th (Geri Walton) tells the tale of Charlotte Charke: Actress, Novelist, and Transvestite. The Bodleian not only has this: George IV & Caroline inspired 1819 ladder, leading to Solemnization or […]
Breastfeeding for men, quacks, a female silversmith, a new use for tobacco and girls’ schools
This week’s Georgian links: breastfeeding for men, blowing smoke up your fundament, female silversmith and more
Covent Garden, executions, African Academy, Black Georgians, astronomy for girls
This week’s Georgian gems: Angela Elliott’s fascinating and beautifully illustrated three-part comparison of Covent Garden then and now. Geri Walton on Georgian executions. The African Academy for 21 boys and 4 girls brought back from Sierra Leone. The house is in Clapham, south London, a few bus stops from my house. The Academy is featured […]
The Beauty of Buttermere, hearing aids, the fashionable bosom, Sake Deen Mahomed in Brighton and a man wrongly executed
Mary Robinson the Beauty of Buttermere, hearing aids, the fashionable bosom, Sake Deen Mahomed in Brighton, and a man wrongly executed