Lucy Inglis' Georgian London has just been named Best Individual Blog and Best New Blog of 2009 by the history blog Cliopatria. The focus is, as the title suggests, all eighteenth-century London all the time, with occasional forays into the early years of the nineteenth--there were four Georges, and their reigns spanned the years 1714 - 1830 (for those who equate nineteenth-century England with Victorian England, think again--Victoria was not crowned until 1837).

You can never know too much history--and the more you know, the more wonderful it gets, at once more real and more fantastic. Currently highlighted at Georgian London are the menageries kept at the Tower, carnival fat man Daniel Lambert (about whom I wrote a bit once upon a time), and a very special little sex shop housed at Covent Garden (once, ironically, Convent Garden).

Check it out.