Tag Archives: George IV

The Prince and the (Relative) Pauper

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

A few months ago, I was ruminating on the personal versus the impersonal in history, a propos of the influence of Baron Stockmar on nineteenth-century European politics. We have just published two works which throw interesting (I think, anyway!) sidelights on … Continue reading →

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Wild Oats

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

John O’Keeffe was born in 1747, and trained as an artist (being enrolled, he tells us, at the Dublin Royal Academy when he was six), but at the age of twenty-seven his sight began to deteriorate seriously (he traced the … Continue reading →

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