At the masquerade, ‘the British Empire put itself on display with outfits ranging from Indian rajahs to chimney sweeps, which collapsed boundaries of gender, class and race.’
Daisy Hay on 18th-century revelry:
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Dror Wahrman argues that ‘it is hard to overestimate – though easy to forget – the cultural significance of the...
