HistoryExtra
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link: https://www.historyextra.com
description: The official website for BBC History Magazine
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items: Slavery and abolition, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
items: Regency war and conflict, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
items: Regency culture, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
items: Regency Quiz - Week One
items: Regency timeline: the key dates you need to know
items: Introduction to the Regency, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
items: The illness and decline of King George III
items: Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain
items: The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?

Slavery and abolition, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
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date: 2024-01-29T10:53:32.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: General prehistory
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
subject: Slavery
description: In her week four mini-lecture for the HistoryExtra Academy Regency course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the late 18th-century campaign to end the trade in enslaved people
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Regency war and conflict, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
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date: 2024-01-22T12:20:14.000Z
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: In the third mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores war and conflict in the Regency period...
encoded: View Green Video on the source website Dr Lizzie Rogers is a historian of the 18th and early 19th centuries

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Regency culture, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
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date: 2024-01-15T15:23:51.000Z
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: In the second mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the literature, art and architecture of the Regency period…
encoded: In the second mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the literature, art and architecture of the Regency period, and how the Prince Regent became an important patron of the era's culture. View Green Video on the source website Explore more content from week two of our Regency course: Becoming Jane Austen – reading time 4 mins The Romantics: everything you wanted to know – listening time 39 mins Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster – reading time 6 mins How to survive a Regency marriage – reading time 7 mins Visiting Brighton Royal Pavilion, the Prince Regent's decadent getaway – reading time 3 mins Dr Lizzie Rogers is a historian of the 18th and early 19th centuries

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Regency Quiz - Week One
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date: 2024-01-08T12:11:19.000Z
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Quiz
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: How much have you learned about the Regency so far? Test your knowledge of your learnings in week one with our quiz
encoded: View Riddle on the source website Explore the content from week one of our Regency course: Regency timeline: the key dates you need to know - reading time 3 mins The Regency era: everything you wanted to know - listening time 54 mins Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain - reading time 14 mins The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved? - reading time 13 mins The illness and decline of George III - reading time 10 mins

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Regency timeline: the key dates you need to know
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date: 2024-01-08T11:21:21.000Z
creator: Danny Bird
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: Danny Bird charts the life and literary career of Jane Austen against the backdrop of a period marked by conflict, revolution and groundbreaking discoveries
encoded: 16 December 1775 Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire. 4 July 1776 Just over a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, delegates from 13 British colonies assembled in Philadelphia declare their independence from British rule and form the United States of America. 1782 The double-acting steam engine is patented by Scottish inventor James Watt. 3 September 1783 The American Revolutionary War concludes with the signing of the Treaty of Paris and British recognition of the independence of the United States of America. 1 January 1785 John Walter publishes the first edition of The Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times in 1788) in London. Costing 21⁄2 pennies, the broadsheet aspires to be a “faithful recorder of every species of intelligence”, covering politics and trade. 1787 A fleet of 11 ships departs Portsmouth on 13 May, bound for the new British penal colony in Botany Bay, Australia. More than 40 of the 775 convicts on board perish in the filthy conditions en route. c1787–93 Jane Austen writes her juvenilia – a set of notebooks containing stories, verses and dramatic sketches. The writings feature a coterie of outspoken (and sometimes rebellious) young women, and satirise 18th- century prose. 1789 The French Revolution begins soon after Louis XVI convenes the Estates-General at Versailles. On 14 July, the Bastille fortress is stormed by a Parisian mob. 1791 Toussaint Louverture (pictured below) leads a slave revolt that overthrows French rule in Saint-Domingue (later Haiti). 1792 Writer Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an important early feminist text. 1793 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are guillotined and Revolutionary France declares war on Britain, starting a conflict that will rage until the signing of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. 1795 Austen pens the story Elinor and Marianne, an early draft of Sense and Sensibility. 1797 Austen’s first completed novel, First Impressions (an early version…

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Introduction to the Regency, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
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date: 2024-01-08T10:49:14.000Z
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: In the first mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the backdrop of Georgian Britain, and introduces one of its biggest characters: the Prince Regent
encoded: In the first mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores how Georgian Britain came into being, and introduces one of its biggest characters: the Prince Regent View Green Video on the source website Explore more content from week one of our Regency course: Regency timeline: the key dates you need to know - reading time 3 mins The Regency era: everything you wanted to know - listening time 54 mins Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain - reading time 14 mins The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved? - reading time 13 mins The illness and decline of George III - reading time 10 mins Dr Lizzie Rogers is a historian of the 18th and early 19th centuries

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The illness and decline of King George III
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date: 2024-01-08T09:05:00.000Z
creator: Charlotte Hodgman
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Evergreen
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
subject: TV interest
description: King George III ruled Great Britain and Ireland between 1760–1820. His reign was marked by the loss of the American colonies in 1783, yet he is also primarily remembered as the so-called ‘mad king’. Following the king’s mental decline due to an illness, his son acted as regent from 1811 until the king's death. Charlotte Hodgman and Amanda Foreman explore Kew Palace in Richmond, where George III was incarcerated during several bouts of mental illness, and consider the king's life in his final years…
encoded: Strolling through the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew on a summer’s day is a veritable assault on the senses. Lush green lawns stretch far into the distance; row upon row of colourful plants and flowers turn their faces to the sun, their many scents rising in the heat. So dazzling is the foliage that it is easy to miss the 17th-century, four-storey red-brick house, small by royal standards which is one of the few surviving parts of the Kew Palace complex. Although today referred to as Kew Palace, the site was originally known as the Dutch House, with a far more impressive Palladian-style building standing opposite. Commissioned by Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1730 and named the White House, today just a sundial marks the site of that long-gone royal residence. Life of George III: In context George III (1738–1820) was the son of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, and grandson of George II. Frederick predeceased his father, leaving George III to become king of Great Britain in 1760. He married Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1761, and the couple went on to have 15 children. George’s reign was marked by a series of political and military struggles, including the loss of the 13 American colonies in the War of Independence. The king’s later years were blighted by recurrent mental illness; his eldest son – later crowned as George IV – ruled as prince regent for the final decade of George III’s life. It is for its connection with one of Britain’s most famous monarchs that Kew Palace is perhaps best remembered. George III, the so-called ‘mad king’, was incarcerated here during some of the episodes of mental illness that plagued much of his adult life. Born in 1738, almost two months premature, the future George III became heir to the throne at the age of 12 following the death of his father Frederick, Prince of Wales. Raised by his mother, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, in relative isolation at Kew Palace, the young prince struggled with his studies, unable to read prope…

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Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain
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date: 2024-01-08T09:00:48.000Z
creator: Dr Ian Mortimer
subject: Georgian
subject: Industrial revolution
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
subject: Money
description: Never was the chasm between rich and poor more stark than in the Regency era. Ian Mortimer chronicles a period in which the wealthiest gorged themselves on the fruits of Britain’s industrial might, while the working classes endured lives that were often nasty, brutish and short
encoded: Listen to this article: Every historical age sees extraordinary inequalities of wealth. Whether we are talking about ancient Rome or 20th-century Britain, the pattern is commonly described as a pyramid, with a small number of exceedingly rich individuals at the apex and a large number of poor people at the base. As we all know, the differences between the top and the bottom are extreme – to the extent that some of the super-wealthy have incomes more than a thousand times greater than the national average. But what about the variance in their basic standards of living? Aside from the glitz and the glamour, are the lifestyles of the rich and poor always poles apart? You might assume that the only possible answer to that question is yes. Peasants and slaves never live like lords and kings. But consider it in terms of life expectancy. In the Middle Ages, a lord’s sons and daughters could expect to live into their mid-thirties and the peasantry about five years less, so the poor lived around 85 per cent as long as the rich. The modern world is only a little more equal: children growing up today in the most deprived areas of Britain can expect to live between 85 per cent and 90 per cent as long as those in the least-deprived areas. It looks as if that proportion is more or less a constant. But one period stands out as different: the early 19th century. In the 1830s, middle-class Londoners could expect to live to 44 but working-class ones only 22, just 50 per cent as long. Working-class people in towns like Liverpool, Preston and Manchester were lucky if they reached 19, at a time when average life expectancy from birth in the UK was more than 40. In the unsewered streets of Ashton-under-Lyne, artisans’ life expectancy at birth was just 13, less than a third of that of their more prosperous fellow citizens. Listen | Historian Ian Mortimer discusses how a vast chasm between rich and poor marked society in the early 19th century Extremes of opulence Why was the early 19th ce…

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The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?
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date: 2024-01-08T09:00:37.000Z
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: George IV was cultured, urbane and generous. Yet he trashed his reputation with his weakness for women, wine and spectacular self-indulgence. Two centuries after he became king, Stella Tillyard introduces the two, contrasting, sides of a little-lamented monarch
encoded: At the end of January 1820, Charles Greville, young man-about-town and future clerk to the Privy Council, was enjoying the good life at the Duke of Bedford’s luxurious estate of Woburn in Bedfordshire. He “shot the whole week”, he recorded in his diary, “and killed an immense quantity of game”. The solemn news that demanded his close professional attention was more laconically reported. “On Sunday last, arrived the news of the king’s death,” he wrote, adding without comment: “The new king has been desperately ill. He had a bad cold at Brighton, for which he lost 80 ounces of blood; yet he afterwards had a severe oppression, amounting almost to suffocation, on his chest.” So George III was dead, and the British crown passed to his son George IV, who, at only 57 years old, was almost too broken down to receive it. Greville was to spend many hours in the company of the new king, but he never came to like him. Ten years later, on 16 July, the day after George IV's funeral, Greville noted, as if he had never known him: "Nobody thinks any more of the late king than if he had been dead 50 years, unless it be to abuse him and to rake up all his vices and misdeeds." The august Times newspaper ran a leader the same day declaring with relish that: "There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king," and asked rhetorically: "What eye has wept for him? What heart has heaved one throb of unmercenary sorrow? If George IV ever had a friend – a devoted friend – in any rank of life, we protest that the name of him or her has not yet reached us." George IV’s reputation was thus poor when he acceded to the throne in 1820, poor when he vacated it in 1830, and has not really recovered since. Part of the reason for this is the fact that he was held in low esteem both by his chief executor, the Duke of Wellington, and by his niece, Queen Victoria, who disapproved of his spendthrift ways, his morals and his laziness. The duke destroyed many of Geor…

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