David Wakefield, authority on Stendhal and Fragonard and custodian of an eccentric Derbyshire house

David Wakefield, who has died aged 83, was a noted character in the county of Derbyshire, author of elegant books on Stendhal ...
The Atlantic

Decadence and Decorum: Eighteenth-Century England's Profane Virtues

THANKS to its sense of form and powers of consolidation, eighteenth-century England is one of the great eras or cultures that seem fairly possible to encompass. Civilized, urbane, we say of it; or, ...
The Atlantic

Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century

THE fifty years which elapsed between 1765 and 1815 cover the most memorable period in modern history, if not in the history of mankind and of human civilization. This half century is one of the great ...

The Artist Who Captured 18th Century Science Demonstrations

Joseph Wright of Derby was one of the first people to document public scientific lectures during the Enlightenment period.
Mansion Global

18th-Century Manor With Turrets and Towers Lists in the South of England

A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...
Hyperallergic

The 18th-century English Craze for One-Eyed Portraits

Gold oval brooch with a band of diamonds within a blue glass guilloche border surrounded by white enamel (1890). Lady’s blue right eye with dark brow (all images from Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from ...
UPI

18th-century suicides highlight struggles of growing old in Georgian England

Aug. 10 (UPI) --Growing old has never been easy, but new research suggests that for many the prospects of old age in Georgian England were especially grim. Suicides in 18th century England are mostly ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rare 18th-Century Drawing by Rococo Artist Tiepolo Discovered in English Estate’s Attic

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's A Large Group of Punchinelli is expected to fetch more than $200,000 at auction. Courtesy of Dreweatts It might seem strange for someone to misplace a work of art worth ...
IndieWire

18th Century Highwaymen Are Having a TV Moment

Two new shows — Apple TV+’s “The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin” and Disney+’s “Renegade Nell” — are centered on highwaymen cavorting around 18th century England. Both series are also ...
Montreal News

The Right Chemistry: Mary Toft of 18th-century England said she had a bunny in the oven

Pulling a rabbit out of a hat, well that’s sort of old hat. But what about pulling a rabbit out of a woman’s privates? That is what happened in 1726, when Mary Toft, an illiterate servant, seemed to ...
JSTOR Daily

The prisoner, the fugitive, and the returnee: three portrayals of the eighteenth-century Sephardi diaspora to England

A. S. Diamond, “Problems of the London Sephardi Community, 1720–1733: Philip Carteret Webb’s Notebooks”, Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (hereafter, ...