The award-winning author of The Lunar Men presents an intricately observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars from the perspectives of everyday people while incorporating material by period artists and writers. Includes chronology and notes. Simultaneous. 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, a Scottish mountain; in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, or a London bank? Aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives?Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Natures Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, showing how it reached the people. Illustrated with the satiric caricatures of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd,In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would transform their country.
