Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and… by Madeleine Pelling · Audiobook preview

Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain
Authored by Madeleine Pelling
Narrated by Madeleine Pelling

0:00 Intro
0:03 Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain
0:39 A Note on the Text
2:36 List of Illustrations
3:28 Introduction: Lost Voices
18:28 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can – if you know where to look. A brilliant new cultural history of the long 18th-century, Writing on the Wall is told through the marks its citizens left behind, bringing into focus lost voices from the highest to the lowest in society. From the centre of London to the islands of the Caribbean, Pelling goes in search of graffiti, evidence of how ordinary people experienced the world-changing events that defined their lives – from political prisoners to sex workers, homesick sailors, Romantic poets and the artisans of the industrial revolution. Here are lives, loves, triumphs and failures, scratched into the walls of prisons and latrines, chalked up on doors and etched into windows. The names of their creators may be lost to history, but together they tell the real story of Britain's most rebellious and transformative century.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Madeleine Pelling is a cultural historian, author and broadcaster. She holds a PhD from the University of York and has held research fellowships at the universities of Yale, Edinburgh, and Manchester. As co-host of History Hit's podcast After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal, she brings a rigorous historical lens to folklore and true crime, and she is also a regular television contributor, including for Channel 4, Sky and Warner Brothers. Her words appear in the Guardian, Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: August 1, 2024
ISBN: 9781038680259
Duration: 10 hr, 29 min
Genres: History / General