UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London

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You can see many of my documentaries at History Hit TV and on the History Hit YouTube channel, or have a watch of my showreel, here. The childish prose and lack of depth made it impossible for me to take it seriously, and I found myself struggling to get through it.

A gripping, energetic and easy to follow deep dive into the raucous satire revolution of late Georgian Britain. CJ Fox, William Pitt and the Prince Regent were just a few of the much larger than life characters that the artists gleefully lampooned. Having never grasped why Blake as an artist is so lionised I share Loxton's view that Gilray and Rowlandson are equally worthy of aclaim (and are also much more entertaining). She is also a well-loved face of the History Hit YouTube channel, and shares her passion for history with her 1 million + followers across social media. Alice is a tour de force, and her magnificent debut showcases her star quality and her talent for storytelling.It’s far better than you might be led to expect from that introduction, even though a later footnote includes “Ten points to Gryffindor”. follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. This is a book that will cause readers to reappraise everything they think they know about genteel Georgian London, and see it for what it was - a time of UPROAR! What really struck me was the revelation that these satirist-Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshanks, and Humphrey (not a true satirist but she gave them a platform in her publishing house! Based in Dover, Delaware, Uproar Books, LLC, began accepting submissions in September 2018, and launched its first title in May 2019, before changing hands in February 2023.

While thorough enough, I found some of the descriptions a bit anachronistic, as very modern language was used (quoting current or recent internet memes, for example) and that sat very oddly for me with the subject matter. I am a fan of Alice’s history reels on Instagram so when I heard she had a book I wanted to do my part to support her. With this book, Loxton has addressed quite a glaring gap in current literature as in no small part due to prudish (and mostly quite successful) attempts made by Victorians to retroactively nullify these men’s contributions to the course of social history in Georgian Britain and erase their names from history, they have remained peripheral, if not entirely absent, from most history texts to date.Alice Loxton has given us an insightful, witty and marvelous history of Georgian Britain never seen before. is a delight: an energetic and highly enjoyable exploration of the careers and the turmoil of the social and political world of the leading caricaturists of the great age of satire, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, and Isaac Cruikshank.

P. Lovecraft, this 1919 pulp classic explored a nightmarish alternative reality where America’s ruling class forces the poor to compete in deadly games. I have long loved the satirical drawings of Georgian England and have wished to learn more about them, since, while they often illustrate books on the era, they are rarely spoken of in any detail. stars from me and not a full 5 is the fact that, given it is a book about art, I would have liked to have seen more visuals included, perhaps in the form of colour plates. I have worked with the National Trust, as well as being asked to speak at 10 Downing Street, the Hay Festival, Oxford Literary Festival and many other places. There was war, Napoleonic and American Independence, Royal scandal: the madness of King George III and the outrageous behaviour of the Prince Regent and political drama.My writing has featured in The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator, Tatler, The Critic, Country Life Magazine and BBC Music Magazine. This is a book that will cause readers to reappraise everything they think they know about genteel Georgian London, and see it for what it was – a time of UPROAR! An anthology of short stories that stretch across multiple universes and beyond death—and demonstrate the strength of the human spirit to find hope and seek a better tomorrow in even the darkest times. I also learned a lot about satirists and caricature artists and the tabloidish media…and saw that honestly, it really hasn’t changed that much.