Boston 1775

Earlier this summer, I spent a few days discussing Albert Matthews’s 1915 analysis of two forms of the Solemn League and Covenant, and then...

One thing I learned last year and am still working through is that a Phrygian cap isn’t the same as a Liberty Cap, but became the same in th...

This week the B.B.C.’s History Today magazine published an article by Stephanie Howard-Smith titled “The War on Dogs,” apparently boiled d...

Speaking of Horace Walpole , last week I received a packet of postcards from Strawberry Hill, that gentleman’s British estate, in thanks for...

A couple of news stories about British art caught my eye recently. In 1727 Sir Robert Walpole , then defining the post of prime minister, ...

William Hogarth ’s series of paintings titled A Rake’s Progress have been at Sir John Soane’s London mansion, now a delight-crammed museum...

Last week the Guardian reported on an upcoming exhibit of the art of William Hogarth at the Tate Britain museum in London. One item in...

I subscribe to several podcasts dedicated to Revolutionary history (broadly defined). I also listen to several podcasts that range more wi...

The Foundling Museum in London is mounting a new exhibit focusing on the visual  artist William Hogarth in an innovative way: Hogarth...

Last month the Print Shop Window reported on a new expert ruling about a painting attributed to William Hogarth in the collection of the ...

Yesterday I quoted John Childs’s announcement that he planned to fly from the steeple of Christ Church in Boston’s North End, the church we...

Some adult in the Cholmondeley (originally Malpas) family here needs to be watching the boy on the right. I know the grownups are busy havin...