Writing on the Wall

Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain

New Hardback Illustrated

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Noting that from the earliest human history the compulsion to leave one's mark appears to have been accepted with little controversy, Madeleine Pelling analyses numerous examples of these varied, often ephemeral and unruly textual and pictorial scribblings. Scratched into walls, chalked on doors or etched into windows, they articulate the experiences of the ordinary inhabitants of Georgian Britain and paint a rich and complex portrait of a society in transition.

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