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A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it by one of the UKs most exciting young historians

London 1772 a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools Within a few years James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly turning satire into an artform taking on the British establishment and forever changing the way we view power

Set against a backdrop of royal madness political intrigue the birth of modern celebrity French revolution American independence and the Napoleonic Wars UPROAR follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power from the Prince Regent to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razorsharp wit as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day