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 ...
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 ...
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Luxury in the eighteenth century : debates, desires and delectable goods / edited by Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger

The rise and fall of the luxury debates / Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger -- Mandeville, Rousseau and the political economy of fantasy / Edward Hundert -- Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in theory and ...
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, ...
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 ...