In These Times : Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 (Hardcover)

from pierthinker

The French Revolution, the life of Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars must be the most written about era of history. Ushering in the modern era, these are times we can relate to most easily and directly; plus, they are full of action, intrigue, politics, hour and engaging derring-do, which also hel...

from nessreader

Uglow is a fantastic mass market historian, and her book on Gaskell is one of the best biographies I've ever read; her book on Hogarth I recommend immensely, but.. This, about the Napoleonic home front, is so diffuse. Uglow's writing is as lucid as ever and she has a journalist's eye for expressi...

from antiquary

Very lively social history of the British "home front" during the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars, based on an extremely widelv range of sources, including not only the prolific ladies and gentlemen of the elite but the much more rarely preserved records of the lower classes. The author is a pl...

from DinadansFriend

An enjoyable book. Uglow has created a firm chronological frame for covering the Napoleonic period. It is well illustrated by using a lot of printed cartoons by James Gillray, a forerunner of "Dunesbury"'s Gary Trudeau. They could have been printed a little larger, but the text in the balloons ca...

from vguy

Skilfully done of course, and full of human touches, but a trifle bitty. She ranges from top to bottom of British society but the effect is ultimately a patchwork, like a short story anthology or a roman a lettres. Her "Lunar men" gave a more coherent interlinked story.