Stories from the Long 18th century
The opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre, 11 May 1818
Six images of schools in the Georgian era
Five views of the countryside at dawn
The Long Room at Trinity College Library, Dublin
James Gillray: Part 1 – Monstrosities of 1799, Kensington Gardens
James Gillray – Part 2: Hannah Humphrey and the print shops of London
Five breeds of dog in the Georgian era
Catherine Andras, model-maker to royalty
Basic Instincts: The art of Joseph Highmore at the Foundling Museum
Spa Fields Riots: The raid on Beckwith’s gun shop
1814: Murder or manslaughter? The trial of Mary Ann Adlam
12 scenes of Christmas
The last days of Mary Ann Burdock
Benjamin Jesty: Pioneer vaccinator
Five scenes of children playing
Baby love: 6 Georgian infants
Breast is best but what were the alternatives in the long 18th century?
It’s raining pitchforks: the Swing Riots of the 1830s, Or, The miserable life of the ag lab
A sure bet – cricket in the Georgian era
The buildings of Georgian Whitehall and Westminster: Houses of Parliament
The buildings of Georgian Whitehall and Westminster: Downing Street
The buildings of Georgian Whitehall and Westminster: Horse Guards, Dover House
Summer scenes from the Georgian era
The Yorkshire schools in court: 1816
1818: The murder of a gamekeeper at Crockingham Corner, Epsom
A voyage to nowhere: On board prison hulks at Woolwich
The trial of John Motherhill for the rape of Catherine Wade: 1786
Suspicious death of a female on Fulham Bridge: 28 September 1817
The eruption of La Soufrière on the West Indian island of St Vincent
1814: The death of Lavinia Robinson, the Manchester Ophelia
1819: The rape of Hannah Whitehorn
An altercation in Taunton between Tom Woodforde and Don Whiskerandos
Some early 19th-century prison escapes
18th and early 19th century indoor winter scenes
The Neglected Daughter
The scandalous love triangle of Maria Foote, William Berkeley and Joseph ‘Pea Green’ Hayne
Horace Cotton: The extraordinary Ordinary of Newgate
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Sophia Edney
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Betty Rowland
36 cases of fraud committed by women, tried at the Old Bailey 1797 to 1837
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Harriet Tarver
The Story of Rebecca Hodges: arsonist and would-be assassin
A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissecting table
The bloody career of Maria Theresa Phipoe
The confession of Mary Voce, who inspired George Eliot
Gangs of Market Drayton: Ann Harris
Social climbing: Regency boarding schools
Condemned to death: Charlotte Newman and Mary Ann James
George Lowman Tuckett: barrister and detective
The end of Frances Thompson, a dealer in false banknotes
Susannah Holroyd: Serial killer
Ann Hurle’s story: The execution of ‘a young woman of education’
The birth of the pound note and the fate of Sarah Bailey
The hazards of hiring: Melinda Mapson
‘Frenzied despair’: Sarah Pugh murders her daughter
Ann Mead: The life and death of a nursemaid
Pregnant and condemned: Pleading the belly and the jury of matrons
William Hone on the case against Elizabeth Miller, who mistook arsenic for oatmeal
1805: Mary Morgan: ‘A Provincial Tragedy’
Elizabeth Canning, Princess Caraboo, Maria Glenn: liars and monsters
1816: The consequences of an attack on a Jew in Derby
The Horrible Murder of Count and Countess d’Antraigues
Child-stripping and child stealing in the Regency
1793: Samuel Taylor Coleridge disappears from Cambridge
47 cases of infanticide at the Old Bailey
The death of Frances Colpitts
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Morpeth: Advice concerning low spirits
James Scarlett, silver-tongued lawyer
Mary Ann Whitby: The role of the Regency nursemaid
A Taunton villain and the mutiny at Vellore Fort
The remarkable gifts of Miss Margaret McAvoy
The premature and lamented death of Sir Samuel Romilly
John Townsend and the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
The Triple Obstetrical Tragedy: Sir Richard Croft
Eliza Fenning: innocent but proven guilty
1817: Margaret Thatcher dies in Soho Square
1816: The knife murderer of Shabbington
John Keate and the Eton riot of 1818
Thomas Picton and Louisa Calderón: ‘Inflict the torture’
The death of an orphan chimney sweep in Somers Town
Catch me if you can: The extraordinary career of Charles Price aka The Social Monster
The extraordinary life and shocking death of Miss Lavinia Walstein
How girls were meant to behave: Georgian conduct books
The Shrigley Abduction: Edward Gibbon Wakefield
The Bristol elopement: Clementina Clerke and Richard Vining Perry
