It’s hooked, loosely, around her 2014 discovery of the ideas of the polymath and society doctor George Cheyne; ironically, given he was “the most obese man in 18th-century England”, he’s ...

While excavating an 18th Century British fort recently discovered in St. Augustine's Lincolnville, archaeologists say they unearthed a moat.

An 18th Century pub is set to be demolished in order to build four new houses. Wakefield Council has approved plans to knock ...

In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Dandyism is often described as a style, but it’s more than just aesthetics. The original dandy – most famously embodied by figures like Beau Brummell in 18th-century Britain – was a man whose primary ...

He teaches courses in literature and theatre, with emphasis on 18th-century Britain. His most recent book, Sex. Scandal and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England was published by Palgrave ...