BBC4 个月
Crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain
In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.
BBC2 年
Medicine in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, c.1700-c.1900 - Edexcel
Medicine in Britain overview - Edexcel Medicine in medieval England, c.1250-c.1500 - Edexcel The medical Renaissance in England, c.1500-c.1700 - Edexcel Medicine in modern Britain, c.1900-present ...
MutualArt.com7 天
British School, 18th Century
As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...
来自MSN5 个月
Life lessons from 18th-century England’s most obese man
It’s hooked, loosely, around her 2014 discovery of the ideas of the polymath and society doctor George Cheyne; ironically, given he was “the most obese man in 18th-century England”, he’s ...
MoneyWeek13 年
How Britain’s cultural revolution transformed the world
When Shakespeare wrote the word honest' he meant noble, in an aristocratic sense. By the 18th century in Britain it came to mean truth-telling - the merchant's virtue of reliability. British ...
来自MSN2 个月
Paul McCartney celebrates an 18th-century British Christmas tradition above his front door ...
Growing mistletoe and using it to encourage kissing over Christmas began in England in the 18th century, according to reports. In the 300 years that have followed, the tradition has found its way ...
Screen Daily12 天
‘Tornado’ review: Tim Roth, Jack Lowden and Kôki do battle in 18th century Britain
As the embittered Sugarman, his belligerent son Little Sugar (Slow Horses star Jack Lowden working with a thinly-sketched ...