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Book SynopsisHillary Burlock is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool, working on the histories of British assembly rooms. She has held fellowships at the Lewis Walpole Library, Huntington Library, and Royal Archives, and has recently published an edited collection, Bath and Beyond: the Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room (2025).
Ian Newman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. He has published widely on 18th- and 19th-century British and Irish literature and culture. He is the author of The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution (2019).
Mark Philp is Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick, UK, and Emeritus Fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK. He works on the history of political thought, social, and political history in Britain between 1750 and 1850. His most recent monograph is Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London, 1789-1815 (2020).
