Tag: 18th century AudioGeorgian Londoners – the making of a modern cityFriday 16 May 2014Lucy Inglis looks at the making of the London identity, and how it was...AudioThomas Armstrong: the smuggler king of CullercoatsFriday 16 August 2013On the surface, Captain Thomas Armstrong was an upstanding, if sometimes over-zealous, member of...Audio‘A low artful wicked man’: poverty riots and bread, the response of government to the crises of the 1790sFriday 25 November 2011The 1790s was a watershed decade in British history with the continuation of population...AudioRadicalism and unrestFriday 21 November 2008From the early trade unions of the 18th century, through to the Luddites and...AudioInventions in 18th century BritainFriday 28 April 2006Maxine Berg, Professor of History at the Eighteenth Century Centre, University of Warwick, explores...