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"Thanks for joining us today on 18th Century Cooking."
"The end result of all this manoeuvring was the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756."
"Frederick the Great, perhaps the greatest military tactician of the 18th century."
"That's great 18th-century cookbooks are chock full of really interesting recipes they're a great way to kind of dig back into history and find out what it was really like through taste."
"Bread was an important food source in the 18th century."
"Barm was the preferred form of yeast for the British."
"The 18th century, they were full of judgey bitches, okay?"
"The fear of being buried alive weighed heavily on the people of the 18th and 19th centuries."
"Perhaps the most infamous of the thief takers was a man named Jonathan Wilde, who operated in London in the early 1700s and used his state-sanctioned powers to build a monopoly on crime in the city."
"Charlotte was an exception for so many rules of the 18th century."
"The 18th century French public loved it just as much."
"Nutmeg shows up over and over and over again in 18th-century recipes."
"Legend has it that in the 18th century John Lucas, the most infamous Gower pirate and Smuggler, used Culver hole as a base for his illegal operations."
"Thomas Alexander Dumas was born on March 25th, 1762 in San Dominga, a French Caribbean colony."
"The Bishop Rock Lighthouse was built in the 18th century to warn vessels of the Silly Isles and dangerous surrounding rocks."
"The Mitchell map of 1755 is negligible for local details."
"Discovering these bodies could help researchers understand more about the health, diet, and lifestyle of soldiers in the 18th Century."
"It's like all these people did it's like it's like an 18th-century it's like oh they were a scientist and a politician and yeah how did they it was it was that actress's second it was her breakout."
"The 18th century's cultural Renaissance in Josan Korea literature especially in the form of popular novels thrived."
"The redingote is a dress inspired by Englishmen's riding coats, and was one of many new informal styles fashionable for women in the 1780s."
"Yellow was one of those colors that survived throughout the 18th century due to its innumerable shades."
"I think we're headed towards constitutional disruptions and a break in the tradition that we've had since the 18th century."
"Dentures during the 18th and 19th centuries were made from materials like animal teeth, wood, or human teeth from cadavers, a discomforting thought."
"Fascinating history dates back to the 18th century."
"Smoothbores were the go-to guns of the 18th century."
"Buttons got extraordinarily fancy in the 18th century."
"In 18th century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."
"The average life expectancy for a German in Bach's lifetime was 22 years old."
"The Industrial Revolution in the US began in 1760 and lasted all the way until 1840."
"Mikimoto... developed by Japanese in the 18th century."
"In the 18th century, it was common for wealthy landowners to encourage people to live in seclusion as Garden Hermits."
"This house was built in 1776 by Reverend Alexander Dobbin."
"Bellotto's reputation as one of the most original view painters of the 18th century."
"Calico Jack, real name John Rackam, was an English pirate Captain operating in the Bahamas and Cuba during the early 18th century."
"With one of the most extraordinary, amazing, remarkable pieces in all of 18th century music."
"In the late 18th century, travel was fashionable."
"John Lawson's journal left us a record of what Carolina was like 300 years ago."
"Welcome back, my name is Cait and I've been studying historical fashion with a heavy concentration of the 18th century for about 13 years now."
"In the middle of the 18th century under the rule of King Fernando VI, a major reform of the state begins."
"If this is actually the Triumfante, it will be the first study of a ship built following the groundbreaking designs of one of the most important ship designers of the 18th century."
"It's a different building system that takes the best of each technique and makes a revolution, creating different and better ships within the building tradition of the 18th century."
"He's the Chuck Norris of the 18th century."
"The first road he built was this short three-mile stretch from Minskip to Fahrensbee in 1765."
"I absolutely love the 18th century France and England."
"An 18th century gown won't have the right shape without these."
"Eventually, the war was over and peace treaty was signed in 1763."
"The 18th century was large feminine; it was the age when women really were at the top of their game."
"Believe it or not, this is a sporting hat, well sort of. Tricorns were every lady's choice in the 18th century when it came to riding ensembles."
"This age serves as a preface to the 18th century English literary history."
"The wealth and luxury of the merchants in the 18th century surpassed anything ever recorded or ever imagined."
"The rise of a young Republic composed of 13 states each governed by officials popularly elected under constitutions drafted by the plain people was the most significant feature of the 18th century."
"...the epistolary novel was perhaps the most common kind of novel that the 18th century produced."
"The Adventures of Tom Jones gives the fullest and richest picture of English life of the late 18th century."
"The 18th century does lay the foundations to a greater sense of women writing which were to be made available in the coming centuries."
"Eliza Heywood's popularity and the prolific output in the 18th century could be compared with any other male writer."
"This work pressed for educational reforms for women in the 18th century."
"The courteous 18th century was an era of brilliant dancing parties, fanciful carnivals, jesters and fireworks."
"I said, 'I'm not going to stop, and I will do the best I can.'"