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Kitty Cochrane: Adventurer for Latin American Independence

Just published – Out of the Shadows: Essays on 18th and 19th Century Women

A new book about Vauxhall Gardens!

My next talk: Self-Publishing Your History Book

Property Rites: How ‘modern’ is the story of Mary Ashford?

Talk – “By her own consent”: The Murder of Mary Ashford and Rape Culture in the Georgian Era

5 Georgian era drinking scenes

“Is she or isn’t she?” How an age-old plea of pregnancy saved women from execution

Did Birmingham artist Samuel Lines know murdered Mary Ashford?

Belgravia – a review

Unvarnished truth? The unreliable autobiography of Mary Saxby

The Legend of Margaret Catchpole

There’s Something About Darcy by Gabrielle Malcolm

Sanditon Episode 8

Sanditon Episode 7

Sanditon Episode 6

Sanditon Episode 5

Sanditon Episode 4

Sanditon Episode 3

Sanditon Episode 2

TV review: Sanditon Episode 1

Women and the Needle: Part 3 – Artists

Women and the Needle – Part 2: Working women

Women and the Needle – Part 1: Ladies’ work

Abraham Thornton’s gauntlet sold for £6,875

Wild swimming in the Thames – Georgian style

No justice: The death of Isabella Young at Herrington, County Durham

A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue

Infatuation, bigamy and retribution: The trial of Ann and Eleanor Weston (1812)

Exhibition: Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill

Thomas Gainsborough: two exhibitions and two murders

Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’: a review

Gauntlet, Gilmore & Roberts’ song about Mary Ashford

15 October 1807: A fake fight results in catastrophe at Sadler’s Wells

Mademoiselle Parisot’s shocking pirouettes put London in a spin

BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time: Index of episodes on 18th-century subjects

Five Georgian kitchens

Five portraits of women reading

1815: The fate of US prisoners of war at Dartmoor Prison

Q&A on Women and the Gallows 1797-1837: Unfortunate Wretches

Titillation and contempt: the meaning of 18th-century caricatures of female fashion

A new life in America: Guest post for All Things Georgian

Mapping murder: Rowland Hill’s early career

The Murder of Mary Ashford: did footmarks point to her killer?

Clocking on: Did ‘time’ help Abraham Thornton escape justice?

Where was Mary Ashford’s spot at Birmingham market?

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

Desperate Measures: Women on Trial for Infanticide in the Early 19th Century

Catherine Andras, model-maker to royalty

Basic Instincts: The art of Joseph Highmore at the Foundling Museum

5 husband murderers: a guest blog for Mike Rendell

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

Eliza Ross: The Forgotten Female Burker

Baby love: 6 Georgian infants

Breast is best but what were the alternatives in the long 18th century?

What happened during the Georgian harvest?

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

Hannah Palmer: Executed with her brother for the murder of his wife (1801)

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

A Q&A on the The Disappearance of Maria Glenn

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

Abduction or elopement? The disappearance of Maria Glenn

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

The Norfolk Murders: Catherine Frarey and Frances Billing

The Norfolk murders: Mary Wright

The one that got away: Sarah Chandler escapes the gallows

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

The cost of executing Jane Jameson

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

Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: terms for women’s bodies

Eliza Fenning: innocent but proven guilty

1817: Margaret Thatcher dies in Soho Square

1816: The knife murderer of Shabbington

1810: Annette Paris overdoses on laudanum

John Keate and the Eton riot of 1818

Thomas Picton and Louisa Calderón: ‘Inflict the torture’

1809: A royal visit to the Great Synagogue of London

1807: The execution of Holloway and Haggerty: tragedy upon tragedy

Life in the King’s Bench Prison

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

Thomas Cochrane and Kitty Barnes

Dr. Stephen Geary Wilkes: “The assassin of domestic happiness”

A sensational child abduction case from 1818: Joseph Charles Horsley

Dissection in hospitals : Private grief v public good

The extraordinary life and shocking death of Miss Lavinia Walstein

Henry Fielding’s attempted abduction of Sarah Andrew

How girls were meant to behave: Georgian conduct books

Lord Thurlow’s grief

The Shrigley Abduction: Edward Gibbon Wakefield

1809: The doomed love of John Giles for Augusta Nicholson

The abduction of Frances Harford by the Patriotick Secretary