As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Her broader, continuing research looks at 18th-century art, as well as British and German philosophy. John works on English Renaissance drama and English Renaissance and Early-Modern poetry in general ...

Executions continued to be carried out publicly in the 18th century, mostly outside Newgate Prison in London. After 1783, a swifter method of execution was used, with the removal of a platform ...