The Right Words in the Wrong Order

By Mr Addison

Such was the reputation of the Prussian army in the days of the Frederick the Great that even foreigners wanted to join.

‘Poor Pamela’s Married At Last!’

By Charles Knight

Letitia Barbauld called Samuel Richardson’s 1740 novel Pamela ‘a new experiment’ in English literature, and to judge by its reception it was very successful.

The War of the Austrian Succession

By Clay Lane

Prussia’s invasion of Silesia in 1740 plunged Europe into turmoil, and a French invasion of England became a very real threat.

Rule, Britannia!

Music by Thomas Arne

‘Rule Britannia’ was a discreet way of telling a German prince what was expected of a British King.