1950s… Red Katy and her Customers 2 Oct 2019 By Stephen Basdeo Robert Fabian (1901–1978) began his career as a police constable in London. He rose through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police and was eventually appointed to the…
19th Century… The Awakening Conscience 27 Jun 201927 Jun 2019 By Stephen Basdeo William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience (1853) is one of my favourite Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Holman Hunt was a religious man and this was a companion piece to…
18th century… Edgworth Bess, a Prostitute (fl. 1723-24) 12 Mar 201616 Mar 2016 This is a blog post written for my friend, Dr. Kate Lister, and her 'Whores of Yore' project. All illustrations featured in the article are from original nineteenth-century books in…
