Nelson’s Lover: The Scandalous Lady Hamilton (TRIH ep 607)
1789 · Resource
This episode focuses on the life and rise of Emma Hamilton (born Amy Lyon) up to her marriage to Sir William Hamilton and her early political and cultural role in Naples. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace Emma's dramatic trajectory from childhood poverty on the Wirral, to Covent Garden and London's theatrical and sex-working milieu, to becoming an artist's muse for George Romney and an international celebrity through her famed 'attitudes' — staged classical poses that mesmerized contemp...
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Around 1789
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)