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Wednesday 29th January 2025

Clorinda might sometimes protest that she was ‘not mistress in her own household’, but it was very well-run and it is clear that Seraphine (and later Euphemia) was a mistress of the arts of the kitchen, and that Phoebe had to know a good deal more than how to dust and scrub.

Tuesday 7th February 2023

What was going on in Britain and the world more generally when Clorinda began her memoirs? The wider context within which she was writing and which pertained during the later developments of the stories.

Tuesday 7th February 2023

The practicalities of a courtesan’s life: sexually-transmitted disorders, the perils of childbirth, the means of prevention, such as they were.

Tuesday 7th February 2023

The robust historical evidence for the existence of an ethnically-mixed population in London (and other parts of the UK) in the early nineteenth century.

Thursday 10th November 2022

The state of medical knowledge and medical practice in early nineteenth century England.

Monday 12th September 2022

The largest city in the world, centre of global trade, but poised awkwardly between old and modern worlds and ways. A city in continual change.