Georgian

Nicholas Lane documents how the big branch banks of today have their origins largely in the numerous private banking partnerships, founded in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Wolf Mankowitz discusses the life and times of one of Britain's most radically successful Georgian industrialists.

William Hogarth’s life was a microcosm of the three main themes of Georgian life, argues Michael Dean.

How rush hour might have looked for commuters in the Georgian era...

Kate Retford explains how the artist Johan Zoffany found ways to promote a fresh image of royalty that endeared him to George III and Queen Charlotte – a relationship he subsequently destroyed.

One of the architects of the British Empire resigned on 5 October 1761.

‘Have the authors of a two-penny weekly journal, a right to make a national inquiry'? 18th-century governments thought not and neither did the newspapers’ readers of the time.

In the late 18th century the merchants, manufacturers and traders of Liverpool founded one of the first chambers of commerce in Britain with the aim of promoting the local economy. Bob Bennett looks at early parallels with the Coalition government’s plans for local partnerships.

A series of violent attacks by pale shrouded figures on lone pedestrians, especially women, was widely reported in the early 19th century. Jacob Middleton uncovers the sham ghosts of Georgian London.

Nicholas Dixon asks whether there was a radical transition between the two eras.