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Stories from the Long 18th century
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
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
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
The Stockwell elopement hoax
Lord Thurlow’s grief
The Shrigley Abduction: Edward Gibbon Wakefield
The Bristol elopement: Clementina Clerke and Richard Vining Perry
Elopement or abduction? Ann Wade and Charles Baseley
1809: The doomed love of John Giles for Augusta Nicholson
The abduction of Frances Harford by the Patriotick Secretary
