Every visitor to 18th-century London was impressed by the noise and the throngs of people. But the city itself was neither quaint nor clean. Most residents lived in appalling conditions.

Pantomimes, pleasure gardens, bare-knuckle boxing and political upheaval. Christmas in the 18th and early 19th centuries was ...

Lucy Worsley is at the Royal Academy investigating the story of Ann Mary Provis, a young artist in Georgian London who ... is immortalised by the great 18th century satirist James Gillray.

An 18th-Century cold bath, which may be the only one of its kind in an elite social meeting place known as an assembly room, has been uncovered. The cold bath was filled in with rubble and covered ...