Every Tuesday evening in August, Oxford-based orchestra Instruments of Time & TruthLink opens in a new window in collaboration with Warwick's Global History and Culture Centre and Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre presents a digital series of performances and talks exploring the lives of musicians and their patrons in eighteenth-century London. The series will premiere on YoutubeLink opens in a new window on 4 August at 7pm. This blog post features an historical essay accompanying the concert series by Professor Maxine BergLink opens in a new window, detailing the rich musical culture of eighteenth-century London and Britain more generally and its historic links to empire, slavery, and changing global patterns of consumption.