East India Co's sales
East India porcelain
Queen's Royal Cookery
Cabinet of curiosities
Sugar in Britain
Bartholomew Fair
Gulliver's Travels
Executions at Tyburn
Textile production
Cities in chaos
East India textiles
The Harlot’s Progress
Handel's Messiah
Advert for a giant
Surgery
Muffin Seller
JS Bach manuscript
The Art of Cookery
Henry Fielding: Crime
Gin addiction
Ranelagh pleasure gardens
Johnson's Dictionary
'The British Giant'
Jigsaw Puzzle Map
The Spinning Jenny
Pleasure gardens
Factories
London prostitutes
Captain Cook's journal
Declaration of Independence
Map of the Gordon Riots
Storming of the Bastille
Runaway slaves
First curry powder advert
First hot air balloon
Abolitionist meeting notes
Georgian entertainments
Georgian Theatre
Mozart’s notebook
Poverty
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Mary Wollstonecraft
Execution of Louis XVI
William Blake's Notebook
An acrobat's 'Surprising Performances'
Many vulnerable young girls were forced into prostitution through their failure to secure work, or were otherwise tricked into the occupation by the promise of respectable employment. This image is from Hogarth’s famous series of prints the Harlot’s Progress, which tells the story of a woman coming to London from the country, taking up prostitution, being sent to prison and eventually dying of the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis.
In London, scores of street walkers plied their trade up and down the Strand, and swarmed the theatres and taverns of the capital. Dozens of infamous bawdy-houses could be found up narrow alleyways and down side streets, and even ships moored on the Thames were sometimes converted into brothels.
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