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 ...
insider.si.edu

The Chinese taste in eighteenth-century England / David Porter

Introduction : monstrous beauty -- China and the aesthetics of exoticism -- Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste -- Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England’

There was lucre in lunacy in the Age of Reason. A new reliance on institutionalization made care for the insane a growth industry in Enlightenment England. But “mad-doctoring,” as it was known, came ...
Daily Camera

CU Boulder report shows how drinking tea saved lives in 18th-century England

Drinking tea (and boiling the water for it) was so popular that it may have accidentally saved lives in 18th-century England, according to a new study by an economics professor at the University of ...
Business Insider

A couple laying a new kitchen floor dug up a trove of 264 rare gold coins that just sold at auction for $845,000

A collection of 17th-18th century gold coins was found in England when a couple renovated their kitchen. The rare coins sold at auction in London for £754,000 ($842,330), including fees. The ...