The clothes stolen children wore could be sold for profit
Black Georgians exhibition at Black Cultural Archives, Brixton
Showing until 9 April 2016
1793: Samuel Taylor Coleridge disappears from Cambridge
Whereabouts given away by a family friend
47 cases of infanticide at the Old Bailey
Stories of denial and desperation
The death of Frances Colpitts – Part 2
The outcome of the murder trial of Esther Hibner
The death of Frances Colpitts
How pauper Frances Colpitts came to be apprenticed to the Hibners.
1829: The cost of executing Jane Jameson
Newcastle was practically en fête
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Morpeth: Advice concerning low spirits
My favourite is “Read amusing books.”
James Scarlett, silver-tongued lawyer
A wit, and sometimes a little bit cruel with it.
Mary Ann Whitby: The role of the Regency nursemaid
Mary Ann Whitby was only thirteen when she arrived to take on duties as a nursemaid.
A Taunton villain and the mutiny at Vellore Fort
Tom Woodforde ignored cultural sensitivities at his peril.
The remarkable gifts of Miss Margaret McAvoy
She claimed she could see through her fingers.
The premature and lamented death of Sir Samuel Romilly
Grief-stricken after his wife’s fatal illness.
John Townsend and the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
First free school for the deaf in Britain
The Triple Obstetrical Tragedy: Sir Richard Croft
He could not recover from the death of Princess Charlotte
London Bill of Mortality 1743
29 people died of imposthume. No, me neither.
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: terms for women’s bodies
You can guess what they mostly relate to.
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: terms for women
Not many were complimentary.
Eliza Fenning: Guest post at All Things Georgian
Innocent but proved guilty.
1817: Margaret Thatcher dies in Soho Square
She was shown compassion, but it was a pitiful demise.
1816: The knife murderer of Shabbington
A murderous attack. An inevitable execution.
1816: The year without a summer
Hunger, riots – and feats of imagination
1810: Annette Paris overdoses on laudanum
Traumatised, mentally disturbed and deeply unhappy
John Keate and the Eton riot of 1818
We’re posh and we’re angry
