It’s the favourite era for cosy costume dramas, but the reality of life in Georgian and Regency Britain was more dramatic, colourful and downright scandalous than anything Hollywood could produce. Andrew and Phil discuss the real life events behind one of the greatest scandals of the age - the open, unmarried-with-a-child, relationship between Emma Hamilton and Britain’s greatest war hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson. Tim Clayton - with whom Phil wrote a book about this era - then joins to discuss the great caricaturist James Gillray, whose brilliant, often explicit imagery helps define this period. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trafalgar-battle-storm-Clayton-Craig/dp/B0013BT2AO

https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/james-gillray/?k=9781913107321

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