I finished Volume 2 of The History of the Four Georges, as a LibriVox audiobook. I knew very little about the details of the first half of the 18th century in Great Britain and learned a lot from this. There is a bit of social and cultural history but it‘s mainly old school political/“great men” stuff. Good for a framework of who did what when though! And I started right in to volume 3–George III, much more familiar ground.