An acclaimed biographer vividly recounts the dramatic and tragic story of Beau Brummell, the most famous man in late 18th-century England, the first modern cele

The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century

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