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Eighteenth-century dining
- August 25, 2018
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A fascinating 4-minute video plus two articles on eighteenth-century dining and etiquette. The Art of Dining in 18th Century England with curator Ivan Day (YouTube) - here . Eighteenth century table setting (from the site ‘The edible eighteenth century’) – here. Guardian article by Jonathan Jones on the history of table manners – here. -
Radical philosophes
- August 8, 2018
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For anyone interested in one of the lesser well-known aspects of the Enlightenment here’s The Economist’s review of Philipp Blom’s much to be recommended ‘A Wicked Company’. The portrait is of Baron d’Holbach whose salon and the activities of its members are central to Blom’s account. ‘The Prologue’, and chapters 1 to 9 of -
Surgery in the century before anaesthetics
- July 21, 2018
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“Eighteenth-century surgeons prided themselves on fast amputations, as well as procedures such as removing bladder stones, cancers, and even cataracts from the eye.” Fillmore Randolph’s engrossing and informative account of surgery in the 1700s - here. Also, a fascinating Daniel Hahn article on John Hunter, the eighteenth-century Scotsman credited with being the father of
