Georgian Witnesses Index (sections correspond to chapters in the book)

Georgian Witnesses Index

The index of section listings has been compiled in parallel with chapters from the book.
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1. Meeting the Georgians (imagery & symbols evidencing the long 18th Century in Great Britain & Ireland 1680 - 1840).

Georgian Witnesses

1 / MEETING THE GEORGIANS

Georgian Witnesses

2 / TRAVELLING THE WORLD

3. Meditative/pessimistic eighteenth century poems & extracts of poems.

Georgian Witnesses

3 / MELANCHOLIA IN VERSE

4. Six Georgian comedies: 5 still popular today & a 6th acclaimed for its liberal message.

Georgian Witnesses

4 / LAUGHTER ON STAGE

5. Georgian daily life, celebrated in diaries & in special venues linked with domestic consumption.

Georgian Witnesses

5 / DAILY LIFE

6. Georgian testaments to the variegated arts of love (& self-knowledge).

Georgian Witnesses

6 / THE ARTS OF LOVE

7. Renowned Georgian educational resources & great Georgian libraries.

Georgian Witnesses

7 / CELEBRATING LITERACY

8. Significant Georgian contributions to both religious worship & to religious scepticism.

Georgian Witnesses

8 / BELIEF & DISBELIEF

9. Georgian sources of power: from taxation & armies to kings, politicians & ‘femocrats’.

Georgian Witnesses

9 / POWER-BROKERS

10. Georgian sites of contest for public protests, some peaceful, some violent.

Georgian Witnesses

10 / POLITICS ‘OUT OF DOORS’

11. Debating Georgian social welfare & crime, including mental health, poverty & the death penalty.

Georgian Witnesses

11 / WELFARE & CRIME

12. Georgian campaign strategies to end the trade in captive Africans & to abolish slavery: imagery, theatre, testimonies, political campaigning etc.

Georgian Witnesses

12 / SLAVERY & ABOLITION

13. Georgian houses, gardens & follies: testifying to elite grandeur & wealth.

Georgian Witnesses

13 / SOCIAL ELITES

14. Contrasting lives among the emergent Georgian middle class, with commentaries on their social role.

Georgian Witnesses

14 / MIDDLOCRATS

15. Georgian workers, trade union 'combinations', industrial action, campaigners for new social/political order, male suffrage & a satirical song.

Georgian Witnesses

15 / WORKERS

16. Celebrity culture as witnessed by 300 Georgian celebrities, plus one exceptional case unknown in his own day but now famed worldwide.

Georgian Witnesses

16 / CELEBRITIES

17. Images of Georgian workplaces, two great engineering feats & a literary warning.

Georgian Witnesses

17 / INDUSTRY & EXPERIMENTS

18. Appreciating Georgian urbanisation through still-surviving notable buildings, street scenes, venues & Georgian art.

Georgian Witnesses

18 / TOWNS & COMMUNICATIONS

19. Perspectives on long-term assessments of the Georgian era through time.

Georgian Witnesses

19 / ASSESSING THE GEORGIANS

20. List of 140+ societies today that celebrate significant Georgians, plus a football club named after a famed Georgian outlaw.

Georgian Witnesses

20 / THE GEORGIANS TODAY

21. Coda: three Georgian Songs and a 'stop press' announcement.

Georgian Witnesses

21 / CODA: GEORGIAN SONGS FOR TODAY & EVERYDAY

1. Meeting the Georgians (imagery & symbols evidencing the long 18th Century in Great Britain & Ireland 1680 - 1840).

Georgian Witnesses

1 / MEETING THE GEORGIANS

Georgian Witnesses

2 / TRAVELLING THE WORLD

3. Meditative/pessimistic eighteenth century poems & extracts of poems.

Georgian Witnesses

3 / MELANCHOLIA IN VERSE

4. Six Georgian comedies: 5 still popular today & a 6th acclaimed for its liberal message.

Georgian Witnesses

4 / LAUGHTER ON STAGE

5. Georgian daily life, celebrated in diaries & in special venues linked with domestic consumption.

Georgian Witnesses

5 / DAILY LIFE

6. Georgian testaments to the variegated arts of love (& self-knowledge).

Georgian Witnesses

6 / THE ARTS OF LOVE

7. Renowned Georgian educational resources & great Georgian libraries.

Georgian Witnesses

7 / CELEBRATING LITERACY

8. Significant Georgian contributions to both religious worship & to religious scepticism.

Georgian Witnesses

8 / BELIEF & DISBELIEF

9. Georgian sources of power: from taxation & armies to kings, politicians & ‘femocrats’.

Georgian Witnesses

9 / POWER-BROKERS

10. Georgian sites of contest for public protests, some peaceful, some violent.

Georgian Witnesses

10 / POLITICS ‘OUT-OF-DOORS’

11. Debating Georgian social welfare & crime, including mental health, poverty & the death penalty.

Georgian Witnesses

11 / WELFARE & CRIME

12. Georgian campaign strategies to end the trade in captive Africans & to abolish slavery: imagery, theatre, testimonies, political campaigning etc.

Georgian Witnesses

12 / SLAVERY & ABOLITION

13. Georgian houses, gardens & follies: testifying to elite grandeur & wealth.

Georgian Witnesses

13 / SOCIAL ELITES

14. Contrasting lives among the emergent Georgian middle class, with commentaries on their social role.

Georgian Witnesses

14 / MIDDLOCRATS

15. Georgian workers, trade union 'combinations', industrial action, campaigners for new social/political order, male suffrage & a satirical song.

Georgian Witnesses

15 / WORKERS

16. Celebrity culture as witnessed by 300 Georgian celebrities, plus one exceptional case unknown in his own day but now famed worldwide.

Georgian Witnesses

16 / CELEBRITIES

17. Images of Georgian workplaces, two great engineering feats & a literary warning.

Georgian Witnesses

17 / INDUSTRY & EXPERIMENTS

18. Appreciating Georgian urbanisation through still-surviving notable buildings, street scenes, venues & Georgian art.

Georgian Witnesses

18 / TOWNS & COMMUNICATIONS

19. Perspectives on long-term assessments of the Georgian era through time.

Georgian Witnesses

19 / ASSESSING THE GEORGIANS

20. List of 140+ societies today that celebrate significant Georgians, plus a football club named after a famed Georgian outlaw.

Georgian Witnesses

20 / THE GEORGIANS TODAY

21. Coda: three Georgian Songs and a 'stop press' announcement.

Georgian Witnesses

21 / CODA: GEORGIAN SONGS FOR TODAY & EVERYDAY