The Georgian Era – 5-Minute History

Napoleon: Hero or Tyrant?

The French still cannot agree on whether Napoleon was a hero or a tyrant. In a 2010 opinion poll, French

It was the year 1828. In the little English village of Polstead in Suffolk, Mrs. Marten was having a bad

Beautiful places, beautiful people, beautiful clothes—Francois Flameng loved to paint them all. Born in an art studio in Paris in

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer. To many of us, he is simply the

The Grim Reaper made frequent visits to colonial Boston. Disease and the difficulties of childbirth sent many men, women, and children

King Louis XIV was so proud of Versailles that he would often give tours to visiting dignitaries himself and even

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (1723 – 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English portrait painter. He promoted the “”

Born a small sickly baby, the son of a Rector in Norfolk, England, Nelson would go on to become the

We all know, love, and remember the Lady Diana Spencer whose wedding in 1981 was watched by an estimated 750

Born in Cambridgeshire in 1733 to Irish parents, Maria Gunning was the eldest of seven children. Her father, John Gunning, was from