18th- century London
Cracking jokes with Dr Johnson
I cast my Readers under two general Divisions, the Mercurial and the Saturnine. The first are the gay part of…
What was the celebrated Garrick really like as an actor?
The age of Garrick, Norman Poser, a law professor, insists, gave us much of what we take for granted today…
Hogarth and the harlots of Covent Garden were many things, but they weren't 'bohemians'
It was Hazlitt who said of Hogarth that his pictures ‘breathe a certain close, greasy, tavern air’, and the same…
