Professor Rosemary Sweet & Dr Richard Ansell join me to discuss why some people decided to travel in the Iberian Peninsular at the height of the Peninsular War, in a bid to see more of the 'action'.

Rosemary's book Cities and the Grand Tour: The British in Italy, c. 1690-1820 is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cities-and-the-grand-tour/1BC3B4C2211B31007B03AA0A39729038

Richards book Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750 is available here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/complete-gentlemen-9780197267271?cc=us&lang=en&

Attend Rosemary and Richard's talk at the Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/821874868857?aff=oddtdtcreator

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