Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London

Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century

on the passions and errors of the soul, published in 1525. Such criticisms, however, do not detract from the main value of this book as a clear exposition in English of interesting and, in their own day, influential theories of the emotions. First of all, we want to compliment Dr Paul Maquet from Belgium for this highly accomplished translation of a difficult text. "latrophysics" is a concept i...

Charitable knowledge: hospital pupils and practitioners in eighteenth-century London

Over the past fifteen years, many aspects of the eighteenth-century British medical world have received the attention of historians. To this already sizeable and growing literature, Susan C Lawrence's book Charitable knowledge makes an impressive addition. What is distinctive about her contribution is its imaginative synthesis of many strands of development and its larger aim of demonstrating w...

Newspaper reporting and attitudes to crime and justice in late eighteenth and early nineteeth century London

As other sources of printed information about crime, such as the Ordinary’s Accounts of the lives of executed criminals, lost their audience in the final third of the eighteenth century, newspapers came increasingly to dominate printed discussions of crime. However, no substantial study of the overall nature of newspaper reporting on crime and criminal justice issues has yet been undertaken. By...

Educating the senses: students, teachers and medical rhetoric in eighteenth-century London

The case of the British inquisition: money and women in mid-eighteenth-century London debating societies.