The flags and banners that flutter above the visitor at the entrance to this exhibition (to 11 March 2014) turn out to be reproductions of eighteenth-century playbills, maps, pamphlets, advertisements, cartoons and engravings. Then, on leaving, and seen from behind, they are the marbled endpapers of books.These images of information are a clever way of evoking the rush of consumer change, of the rapid growth of mass markets and mass information that characterised life during the reigns of the four King Georges, from 1714 to 1830. In architectural terms it begins with Vanbrugh’s Blenheim Palace and finishes, more or less, with the Prince Regent’s Brighton Pavilion. This excellent exhibition flags up the context of the Georgian period in its larger historical episodes: the South