Historian and author Emily Brand discusses scandalous affairs, messy duels, corrupt law-enforcers, and vengeful ghosts that captivated Georgian Britain. She explores the dissemination of scandals through personal correspondence, word of mouth, and print culture. The scandalous personal life of a prime minister, scandals involving a sex scandal between MP William Beckford and aristocrat William Courtney, and the significance of scandals as historical sources are also covered.
