The George's German connection eventually manifested itself in the various Hanover and Brunswick Squares, Place, Parks, Gardens, and Courts, which we still see today. As well as the many ‘King of Prussia' pubs, celebrating Frederick the Great as a Protestant hero (there is one not there far away from the Library in Leather Lane).

Equally unfortunate was the relentless London-centricity, which was rounded off with a banner headline quotation of Samuel Johnson's infamous quip that whoever was tired of the capital was ‘tired of life'. There are a few nods towards the midlands, with prints of a theatre in Birmingham's New Street, and a map of Britain's canal network but the exhibition largely stayed within the comfort of London. While there is no doubt that London was hugely important, the Georgian period marked the beginning of an era in which the metropolis lost some ground to the new hubs in Birmingham, and Manchester. The latter I don't recall being mentioned at all, despite its population having grown to more than 700,000 by the death of George IV. Expecting much greater awareness of this aspect is a matter not of political correctness but historical justice.