Writing on the Wall (eBook)

Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

MADELEINE PELLING (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
9781800812017 (ISBN)

Infos

'A wonderful, vibrant account' Susie Dent'A secret history like no other' BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year 2024Longlisted for the 2025 Berger PrizeWhat if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to lookAn aristocrat carves obscenities into a tavern window with his diamond ring. A shopkeeper's daughter sketches customers with a piece of coal. A desperate highwayman, condemned to death, scratches his initials into his prison cell door.Writing on the Wall goes in search of the hidden voices of Britain's most rebellious and transformative era - a time when anyone in possession of a sharp point and ready surface could find their voice and immortalise their message. Through the marks made by ordinary people, scratched into walls, doors, windows and more, Madeleine Pelling brings the lost stories of the past to life in all their unguarded glory.

Autor

Madeleine Pelling is an award-winning cultural historian, author and broadcaster, and has held research fellowships at the universities of Yale, Edinburgh and Manchester. She is the co-host of History Hit's popular After Dark podcast and is a regular contributor for TV and radio, including for Channel 4, Sky Arts, Warner Bros and the BBC. Her words appear in the Guardian, Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today, amongst others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 3-5 integrated images per chapter
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 18th century • archaeology • Architecture • British history • derelict • emily cockayne rummage • Graffiti • Hidden • Ian Mortimer • lara maiklem mudlarking • lisa woollett rag and bone • London • london clay tom chivers • London in Fragments • mary-ann ochota secret britain • material history • peoples' history • Peter Ackroyd • peter stanford if these stones could talk • Revolutionary War
• ISBN-13: 9781800812017 / 9781800812017