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Writing on the Wall
- Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain
- By: Madeleine Pelling
- Narrated by: Madeleine Pelling
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant new cultural history of the long 18th-century, Writing on the Wall is told through the marks its citizens left behind, bringing into focus lost voices from the highest to the lowest in society. From the centre of London to the islands of the Caribbean, Pelling goes in search of graffiti, evidence of how ordinary people experienced the world-changing events that defined their lives – from political prisoners to sex workers, homesick sailors, Romantic poets and the artisans of the industrial revolution.
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Writing on the Wall
- Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Narrated by: Madeleine Pelling
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2024
- Language: English
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Writing on the Wall
- Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
- By: Tom Standage
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new audiobook, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen used to exchange news across the Empire to the advent of hand-printed tracts of the Reformation to the pamphlets that spread propaganda during the American and French revolutions, Standage chronicles the increasingly sophisticated ways people shared information with each other....
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- By Adam on 13-04-2022
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Writing on the Wall
- Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 15-10-2013
- Language: English
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