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1704East India Co's sales
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1704East India porcelain
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1709Queen's Royal Cookery
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1710Cabinet of curiosities
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1715Sugar in Britain
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1720Bartholomew Fair
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1721Gulliver's Travels
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1725Executions at Tyburn
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1730Textile production
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1730Cities in chaos
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1731East India textiles
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1733The Harlot’s Progress
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1741Handel's Messiah
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1742Advert for a giant
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1743Surgery
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1743Muffin Seller
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1744JS Bach manuscript
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1747The Art of Cookery
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1751Henry Fielding: Crime
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1751Gin addiction
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1753Ranelagh pleasure gardens
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1755Johnson's Dictionary
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1761'The British Giant'
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1766Jigsaw Puzzle Map
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1770The Spinning Jenny
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1771Pleasure gardens
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1771Factories
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1773London prostitutes
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1775Captain Cook's journal
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1776Declaration of Independence
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1780Map of the Gordon Riots
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1780Storming of the Bastille
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1781Runaway slaves
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1784First curry powder advert
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1784First hot air balloon
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1787Abolitionist meeting notes
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1787Georgian entertainments
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1790Georgian Theatre
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1791Mozart’s notebook
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1791Poverty
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1791Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
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1792Mary Wollstonecraft
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1793Execution of Louis XVI
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1794William Blake's Notebook
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1795An acrobat's 'Surprising Performances'
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Intro
Bartholomew Fair was by far the largest and most spectacular event of its kind, and was the scene of much public excitement. Held in London every September for four days, the thousands of visitors who went there could witness dozens of entertainments and spectacles: tumblers, acrobatics and tightrope walkers, for example, or exhibitions of exotic animals, boxing competitions, puppet shows and displays of human strength. There were dozens of ‘booths’ selling a wide range of foods such as gingerbread, nuts, puddings, sausages and hot pies to the huge crowds. Vast quantities of alcohol were consumed there, which was the cause of much concern to local authorities. This image from 1721 shows details of these entertainments.
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