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Alice Loxton knows how to make history fun! The historian, presenter and author has over two million followers across social media and she'll be joining us to talk about her passion for the subject and specifically her research into the thrilling and hilarious satirists from the late Georgian period.
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power.
Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, Alice's book UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Join us as Alice shares the razor-sharp history behind one of Britain's most iconic professions.
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