In these times

Description:

"A people's history of life in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars"-- "A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian. We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century"--

subjects: Social life and customs,  Sources,  War and society,  Military History,  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815,  History,  HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain,  HISTORY / Social History,  Social conditions,  New York Times reviewed,  Great britain, social life and customs,  Great britain, history, 1714-1837,  Great britain, history, military,  Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01032683,  Social aspects,  Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01032683 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01032683

Places: Great Britain

Times: 18th century,  19th century,  1789-1820,  George III, 1760-1820