Hanging with History

The Regency Crisis of 1788 - 1789


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The Regency Crisis shines a light British Resiliency during the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.  We end up in a situation where a spiritual testing of the king occurs in the most public way possible.  And the vast majority of the British public responds with joy, also in a very public way.  Everyone knows that everyone knows.  

We explore the madness of George III, his recovery and the nation’s reactions.  There are anecdotes followed by an analysis of 3 quantitative measures that tell us, that the British public was more concerned with and joyful of, the outcome of this illness, than of any other public event in a generation.

And the timing of it was almost too perfect.  The spring of 1789 in Britain, just before the July 14 storming of the Bastille.  

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Hanging with HistoryBy Harald Hansen

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