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Tuesday 7th February 2023
What was going on in Britain and the world more generally when Clorinda began her memoirs? The wider context within which she was writing and which pertained during the later developments of the stories.
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Tuesday 7th February 2023
The practicalities of a courtesan’s life: sexually-transmitted disorders, the perils of childbirth, the means of prevention, such as they were.
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Tuesday 7th February 2023
The robust historical evidence for the existence of an ethnically-mixed population in London (and other parts of the UK) in the early nineteenth century.
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Thursday 10th November 2022
The state of medical knowledge and medical practice in early nineteenth century England.
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Monday 12th September 2022
The largest city in the world, centre of global trade, but poised awkwardly between old and modern worlds and ways. A city in continual change.
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Thursday 18th August 2022
Clorinda and her circle were all considerably engaged with the pleasures of books. Some notes on how they would have accessed (and disseminated) books.