Mastodawn

Hellfire Clubs revealed the contradictions of elite 18th-century culture — libertinism in private, moral authority in public. 🔥

A perfect storm of secrecy, satire, and political influence.

#Brewminate #History #EighteenthCentury #Power

https://brewminate.com/hellfire-clubs-libertinism-power-and-panic-in-the-eighteenth-century/

Hellfire Clubs and Elite Transgression in Britain

The real history of Britain’s Hellfire Clubs, where elite satire, ritual parody, and political anxiety shaped one of the century’s most controversial societies.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 12

“ #Twentieth-century social life turns out in key part to be the concrete and dramatic re-enactment of #eighteenth-century #philosophy” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, After Virtue

John Griogair Bell Oct 1

Top ten posts in September 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/01/top-ten-posts-in-september-2025/

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Anna Aug 7

Can anyone point me to a resource that discusses what "corrected" vs "with amendments" on an 18c title page would have indicated to readers? #bookhistory #eighteenthcentury

Anna Jul 23

Does anyone have any information on the "sermon-stealing" mentioned in this advertisement? It is from a chapbook called Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy at Large by John Oldmixon sold by Curll, Pemberton, and Corbett in 1740. I suspect the "Monthly Libels" are Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine. #bookhistory #EighteenthCentury

Richard Jones Jan 21

One of the days when you reflect, at its close, on the content you have delivered to #History students. A veritable smorgasbord of #Fun: 10am+1: #EighteenthCentury #Fish bladder #Condoms; 12 noon+1: #Medieval #Death in all is glorious hideousness; 1pm+3: the origins of #Chocolate box #English #Villages. #Leicester students certainly get to explore the most exciting corners of the past!

Rita Singer Oct 28, 2024

📢 ERTHYGL NEWYDD 📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
VALENTINE MORRIS (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner
'On his father's death in 1743, Morris inherited the Piercefield estate, along with substantial plantations in Antigua including a great number of enslaved people. These included Looby's, Crabb's, and Martin's in St Paul Parish in southern Antigua and Jolly's in St Mary Parish in western Antigua. In 1776, Morris was rated as owning 1,004 acres on the island, which was worked by 284 enslaved people. As Ivor Waters strikingly puts it, 'The elegant Valentine Morris owned Piercefield in Monmouthshire, worth £50,000 and Piercefield, a slave in Antigua, worth £10.' He was largely an absentee plantation owner while in Britain, apart from a visit to Antigua in 1754 following a period of drought there.' -- Adam Coward

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-VAL-1771

#histodons #Wales #BritishEmpire #EighteenthCentury #Bywgraffiadur #DiversityProject

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