On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi, where he had gone to lend his name and give financial support to the Greek war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. After being drenched by a ...
Sam Hirst works as a research fellow at Nottingham University in a collaboration with Newstead Abbey where some of these items are held. They receive funding from AHRC. It’s July 5 1807. A drunk and ...
Two hundred years after his death, this Romantic poet is still worth reading. “Who would write, who had anything better to do?” Byron once said.Credit...Musée Fabre/Hulton Fine Art Collection, via ...
The name Lord Byron instantly brings to mind scandal, heartbreak, and that unforgettable description: “mad, bad, and ...
Even before rumours of his affair with his half-sister spread, Lord Byron had a reputation for scandal. His lover Lady Caroline Lamb famously described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. That ...