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Two hundred years after his death, Lord Byron remains one of Britain’s most controversial poets. But who was the real man behind this scandalous reputation? Charlotte May and Amy Wilcockson look at his life through nine objects.
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This new book updates Thomas Moore’s biography for the bicentenary of Byron’s death
An impressively rounded portrait of the raucous and manipulative poet, venereal scars and all
In 1814, at the height of his fame, the poet, libertine and freedom fighter Lord Byron had his head examined. Not by a proto-psychiatrist but by the German phrenologist and physician Johann Spurzheim, who, after making a detailed study of the no doubt amused Byron’s cranium, pronounced the brain to be ‘very antithetical’ and said
A central London townhouse owned by the Romantic poet has gone on sale, though will likely need converting into residential property