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On the 300th anniversary of the dynasty, it’s sobering to realise they were more ambitious and confident than we are
We think we know the Georgians so well: an era that revolved around stately homes, Hogarthian satire and, above all, Jane Austen’s world of county families and lovers’ quarrels. Few other periods in our history have been so completely taken over by the heritage industry.
But, with the 300th anniversary of the coronation of George I on Monday, it is sobering to realise that the Georgians put Britain on the map in a way that no other era has managed. They did it with a boundless ambition and confidence in the future that, for all our technological superiority today, we
