For the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Alyssa Myers, a final year PhD student at the University of Manchester Metropolitan, examining the role of elite suburban villas as centres of politics in the later part of the eighteenth century. The long eighteenth century saw a surge of villas cropping up around the outskirts of London in areas primarily along the Thames, such as Richmond-upon-Thames … Continue reading Public breakfasts at Chiswick House: the duke and duchess of Devonshire’s suburban villa