Joseph Hone

‘The most important lesson history has taught me? Destroy your drafts and personal papers, because one day a graduate student will comb through them looking for incriminating titbits.’

Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis takes the ideals of the 18th century on their terms.

Dinner parties in the ‘Revolutionary Age’ with the publisher Joseph Johnson.

It is often claimed that press censorship came to an end in England at the close of the 17th century. But it persisted, thanks to an unsavoury network of government spies.

Joseph Hone asks whether, had the Queen shown her Irish subjects greater signs of affection, could the Union have been preserved?