In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815

by Jenny Uglow

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"The sharply-observed characters and constant pricks of humour make this book seem almost as if Jane Austen had written a history of her own times." (Lucy Worsley The Times). 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 or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers - how did the war touch their lives? Every part of Britain felt...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780571269525
  • Publish Date 6 November 2014 (first published 4 November 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 October 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber