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Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions
Manage episode 328201308 series 1286758
This week, Lucy Dallas is joined by Kathryn Sutherland to tuck into the three o'clock dinners of Joseph Johnson, publisher and friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Priestley, Henry Fuseli, Williams Blake and Wordsworth, and many more great minds of that era. And Boyd Tonkin explains that Napoleon's conqueror, the "Iron Duke" of Wellington, had a great and unexpected gift for friendship - with women.
'Dinner with Joseph Johnson' by Daisy Hay
'Wellington, women and friendship' at Apsley House, London, until October 30
Produced by Sophia Franklin
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
567 episodes
Manage episode 328201308 series 1286758
This week, Lucy Dallas is joined by Kathryn Sutherland to tuck into the three o'clock dinners of Joseph Johnson, publisher and friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Priestley, Henry Fuseli, Williams Blake and Wordsworth, and many more great minds of that era. And Boyd Tonkin explains that Napoleon's conqueror, the "Iron Duke" of Wellington, had a great and unexpected gift for friendship - with women.
'Dinner with Joseph Johnson' by Daisy Hay
'Wellington, women and friendship' at Apsley House, London, until October 30
Produced by Sophia Franklin
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
567 episodes
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