1794 Treason Trials
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The 1794 Treason Trials, arranged by the administration of Prime Minister William Pitt, were intended to cripple the British radical movement of the 1790s. Over thirty radicals were arrested; three we
Thomas Paine; a painting by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by George Romney (1792)
John Horne Tooke
James Gillray's cartoon of Thelwall speaking at Copenhagen Fields on 26 October 1795
George III
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George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom. He was
1794 Treason Trials
…was an indictment of tyranny in general or of Louis XVI, the king of France, and announced his dismay that anyone could think that the author meant George III. "Gurney went so far as to cheekily suggest that it was the Attorney-General who was guilty of seditious libel; by supplying those innuendos he, not…
Coronation portrait, 1762
George (right), his brother Edward, and their tutor, Francis Ayscough (later Dean of Bristol), by Richard Wilson, c. 1749
Pastel of George as Prince of Wales by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754
Wedding of George and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, oil sketch by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1761