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The coffeehouse
- October 3, 2020
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An entertaining 16-minute TED talk by Matthew Green on coffeehouses of the 17th and 18th centuries – here. A British Library article by Matthew White, ‘Newspapers, gossip and coffee-house culture’, can also be found here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of -
‘Thérèse philosophe’
- August 29, 2020
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The eighteenth century seems to have witnessed a transformation in sexual behaviour and attitudes. There certainly seems to have developed, relative to previous times, an enormous openness with regards to sex (or, at least, heterosexual sex), particularly in cities such as Venice, Paris and London, an openness which went well beyond a libertine few. -
What did eighteenth-century men want?
- July 25, 2020
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Such is the gloom that surrounds settling down today and the glamour that attaches to mature bachelor freedom, it is hard to imagine that there was a time when marriage represented the summit of a young man's hopes. (Professor Amanda Vickery) Very entertaining and insightful Gresham College lecture on the eighteenth-century man’s desire to
