Bath: They Came to Bath

Lady Belmore lived at 17 Royal Crescent for thirty years until her death in 1841 at the age of eighty-six....

No record of English eccentrics would be complete without a chapter on William Beckford. He had a passion for building...

Bath provided a haven for many retired admirals during the nineteenth century, and Ballard is by no means the most...

There are four houses in Bath that can claim to have accommodated Jane Austen during her active association with the...

George III’s second son, Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, enjoys a modest measure of immortality because he inspired a nursery...

In 1766 a small book, The New Bath Guide, was published by Dodsley, a London bookseller. It was written by a...

During the last three hundred years that have been several royal visits to Bath. Queen Elizabeth I came in 1574,...

John André was born and educated at Geneva, and came to Bath when he was nineteen, living for a time...

Of the three men generally held to have been responsible for the city of Bath’s sensational eighteenth-century development—Ralph Allen, Beau Nash and John...