This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.

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New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the govern

Through a fascinating narrative and 65 illustrations, including portraits, prints and caricatures, the extraordinary vigour of the bluestockings, 18th-century f

Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and Willia