1. Politics and Culture in Eighteenth- Century Britain Lecture 1: The eighteenth century: an introduction

2. Class: Thomas Gainsborough, ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, c.1750 aristocracy, landed gentry and an aspirant middle class - a culture of deference?

3. Sociability: ‘a polite and commercial people,’ and the ‘urban renaissance’

4. Enlightenment and empire Joseph Wright of Derby, ‘A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery,’ 1766

5. Liberty and corruption William Hogarth, ‘John Wilkes,’ 1763 1688 ‘Glorious Revolution’ established the principle of a constitutional monarchy = ‘balanced constitution’ of monarch, lords and commons Challenge to the regime -1688-1745 – Jacobites -From the 1760s – reformers and radicals Whigs and Tories were the main political parties, though the Whigs dominated government throughout the century ‘liberty’ versus ‘corruption’ were the key words

6. Crime and the underworld William Hogarth, ‘The Idle Prentice executed at Tyburn,’ 1747

7. William Hogarth (1697-1764) Self-portrait, ‘The painter and his pug,’ 1745

8. Key theme According to Hogarth, the façade of a ‘polite and commercial people’ hid the reality of luxury and corruption in both eighteenth- century society and politics.

9. ‘The Rake taking possession of his estate’, plate 1 of William Hogarth,‘The Rake’s Progress’ (1734) http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/

10. ‘The orgy’, plate 3

11. plate 6, ‘The Rake at the Gaming House’

12. plate 7, ‘The Rake in Prison’

13. plate 8, ‘The Rake in Bedlam’

14. William Hogarth, ‘An election entertainment’ from ‘The Election’ (1754)

15. ‘Chairing the Member’ from ‘The Election’ (1754)

16. William Hogarth, ‘Gin Lane’ and ‘Beer Street’, 1751

17. William Hogarth, ‘Gin Lane,’ 1751

18. William Hogarth, ‘Beer Street,’ 1751