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| Introduction | 1 | |
| Chapter 1. | Crime and Punishment | 11 |
| Hanging, Drawing, and Quartering, 1731 | ||
| Trials by Ordeal for Witchcraft, 1731-59 | ||
| Sample Sentences, 1731-79 | ||
| Spousal Abuse, 1732-37 | ||
| Conspiracy, Abortion, and the Pillory, 1732 | ||
| Flogging 'round the Fleet, 1735 | ||
| Justice Deferred at the Reading Assizes: Pin Money and Conjugal Rights, 1735 | ||
| The Press (Peine Forte et Dure), 1735 | ||
| Penalty for Suicide, 1735-55 | ||
| Highway Robbery: The Career of Dick Turpin, 1737-39 | ||
| The Hanged Man Redivivus: Coming Back to Life on the Anatomist's Table, 1740 | ||
| Suppression of the Rebellion of the 'Forty-Five, 1746-47 | ||
| "Horrid Cruelties": Elizabeth Brownrigg's Treatment of Her Apprentices, 1767 | ||
| Innovation in Hangings: The Newgate Drop, 1783 | ||
| Hanging and Burning at the Stake, 1786-88 | ||
| Execution of Robert Watt for High Treason, 1794 | ||
| The Tread Mill, 1822 | ||
| Chapter 2. | Medicine | 51 |
| Tapping for the Dropsy, 1732 | ||
| Death from Rabies, 1735 | ||
| Cure for the Bloody Flux, 1736 | ||
| Rabies Prevention: Killing the Dogs of Edinburgh, 1738 | ||
| Birth Defects Explained, 1746 | ||
| Quack Cures, 1752 | ||
| Cataract Surgery, 1754 | ||
| Cutting for the Stone, 1754 | ||
| Leeches for Headache, 1762 | ||
| Remedy for Bedbugs, 1764 | ||
| Conditions in Private Madhouses, 1766 | ||
| The London Mortality Bill, 1767 | ||
| Cure for Breast Cancer, 1768 | ||
| Cure for Tubercular Lung Hemorrhages, 1782 | ||
| Experiment with Blood Transfusion, 1784 | ||
| Inoculation for Smallpox, 1787 | ||
| George III and the Onset of Porphyria, 1788-89 | ||
| Samuel Ayscough's Method for Killing Black Beetles in London Kitchens, 1791 | ||
| Death of a Tippling Welshman, 1793 | ||
| Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793 | ||
| Edward Jenner's Vaccination for Smallpox Announced, 1798-99 | ||
| Death by Burning, 1799 | ||
| Death of Queen Caroline, 1821 | ||
| Cholera Epidemic, 1831 | ||
| Chapter 3. | Science, Natural History, and Archaeology | 99 |
| Supposed Capture of a Merman, 1737 | ||
| The Excavations at Herculaneum, 1743-49 | ||
| George Smith of Wigton, Cumbria: Traveler, Naturalist, and Proponent of Romanticism of the Sublime, 1748-51 | ||
| Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod, 1750 | ||
| Benjamin Franklin's Experiment with the Kite and the Key, 1752 | ||
| The Gregorian Calendar Reform and the Glastonbury Thorn, 1752-53 | ||
| The Lisbon Earthquake, 1755 | ||
| Halley's Comet, 1756-59 | ||
| Captain James Cook's Voyage in the Endeavour, 1768-71 | ||
| Rev. John Duncombe's "Curious, and ... Non-Descript, Reptile, ... Uncommonly Large and Beautiful," 1778 | ||
| William Herschel's Discovery of Uranus ("The Georgian Planet"), 1781 | ||
| First Balloon Flight in Britain, 1784 | ||
| The Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789 | ||
| The Rosetta Stone, 1801-02 | ||
| Chapter 4. | Preaching the Gospel | 147 |
| Suppression of Private Mass Houses, 1735-38 | ||
| John Wesley's Missionary Activities among the Chickasaws, 1736 | ||
| George Whitefield's Ministry, 1739 | ||
| The Dimensions and Capacity of Noah's Ark Described, 1749 | ||
| Anti-Methodist Riots in Norwich, 1752 | ||
| Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, 1784 | ||
| Robert Raikes and the Sunday School Movement, 1784 | ||
| Chapter 5. | The Debates of the Senate of Lilliput | 175 |
| The Fall of Sir Robert Walpole, 1741-42 | ||
| Chapter 6. | News from America | 191 |
| Oglethorpe's Treaty with the Creek Nation, 1733 | ||
| Visit of the Chief of the Yamacraw Tribe to George II, 1734 | ||
| Two Views of Slavery in the Colonies: Suppression of a Slave Uprising on Antigua, 1736; Start-up Costs of a South Carolina Indigo Plantation, 1755 | ||
| Fire in Charleston, 1740 | ||
| Raising the Liberty Bell, 1753 | ||
| Braddock Ambushed near Fort Duquesne, 1755 | ||
| The Stamp Act, 1765-66 | ||
| Lexington and Concord, 1775 | ||
| George Washington's Reception in Philadelphia en Route to His First Inauguration, 1789 | ||
| Obituary for George Washington, 1799 | ||
| Chapter 7. | The French Revolution | 229 |
| The Fall of the Bastille, 1789 | ||
| The "October Days," 1789 | ||
| The September Massacres, 1792 | ||
| The Sentencing of Louis XVI, 1793 | ||
| The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 | ||
| The Death of Robespierre, 1794 | ||
| The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 | ||
| Chapter 8. | Riots, Radicalism, and Reform | 275 |
| The Gordon Riots, 1780 | ||
| The "Church and King" Riots [Priestley Riots], 1791 | ||
| The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 | ||
| The Thistlewood Plot [Cato Street Conspiracy], 1820 | ||
| The Reform Bill Riots in Bristol, 1831 | ||
| Chapter 9. | Literary Judgments | 315 |
| Sir John Fielding's War on The Beggar's Opera, 1773 | ||
| "A Woman of Uncommon Talents": Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-98 | ||
| "Such Abominable Trash as Modern Novels," 1808 | ||
| The Best-Selling Novel of Its Day: Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 1809 | ||
| "Amusing, if Not Instructive": Jane Austen's Emma, 1816 | ||
| "No Ordinary Writer": Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, 1818 | ||
| "An Archangel Ruined": Byron, The Bride of Abydos, Cain, and Don Juan, 1814-22 | ||
| "We Ought as Justly to Regret the Decease of the Devil": The Death of Shelley, 1822 | ||
| Bibliography | 341 |
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