Am I missing any? Let me know in the comments box below! All Creatures Great and Small, Fan Museum, London, 23 May – 16 Sept 2017 “Sometimes humorous, sometimes curious, fans decorated with animal subjects occupy The Fan Museum’s elegant Georgian interiors during the summer months of 2017. Throughout history fan painters have seen fit… Continue reading 2017 exhibitions featuring Georgians/Georgian-related things
If you’ve been in London at all this summer it can’t have escaped your notice that there is a big anniversary this year, being celebrated throughout the capital. On 2nd September 2016 we commemorated 350 years since that famous fire caught flame on Pudding Lane and ravaged the medieval City for four long days. The… Continue reading Exhibition Review: Fire! Fire!
If I could spend all of my time wandering around museums I most certainly would. Getting to see, smell and almost feel (if you’re lucky) historical objects is such a treat, they’re the physical manifestations of so much of the reading that I do. Us ‘eighteenth-century-ers’ have been somewhat spoilt exhibition-wise recently. With the… Continue reading 2016 exhibitions featuring Georgians/Georgian-related things
25 Sept 2015 – 3 Jan 2016, The Foundling Museum, London ‘Woman is raped by her employer and becomes pregnant: unable to terminate the pregnancy, jobless and destitute; she abandons her baby and earns her living selling the only thing remaining in her possession, her body…’ A not unheard of tale even today is it?… Continue reading Exhibition Review: The Fallen Woman
Georgian vice 