‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis takes the ideals of the 18th century on their terms.
Joseph Hone
Liar Liar
The courtroom drama, executions, and street pageantry of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’.
Echo Chamber
Dinner parties in the ‘Revolutionary Age’ with the publisher Joseph Johnson.
It’s Laughable
An account of laughter as a force for societal good.
Stop Press
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.
Queen Victoria in Ireland, 1853
Joseph Hone asks whether, had the Queen shown her Irish subjects greater signs of affection, could the Union have been preserved?