Georgians

The Low Road

Katharine Quarmby writes about the pleasures and pains of the late Georgian Era

Samuel Johnson and the Perils of Hope

On the anniversary of Johnson's birth, Peter Moore considers a subject that deeply engaged the great writer.

The Most Famous Actress in the Georgian World

On her retirement the television producer Jo Willett set out to write a biography of Sarah Siddons

Scarlet Town with Leonora Nattrass

Leonora Nattrass on the paranoid politics of the 1790s