Writing on the Wall : Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Madeleine Pelling

Writing on the Wall : Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Madeleine Pelling'A wonderful, vibrant account' Susie Dent'A secret history like no other' BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year 2024What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can if you know where to lookAn aristocrat carves obscenities into a tavern window with his diamond ring. A shopkeeper's daughter sketches customers with a piece of coal. A desperate highwayman, condemned to death, scratches his initials into his prison cell door. Writing

Never shy of making her body a testing lab for new discoveries

the oldest

theories and yes

Young Elphaba is destined to be a witch

the funeral is already over

Most died of starvation

and someone is trying to ruin the panto before the curtain even goes up

The first in an exciting magical adventure series about a girl

Step-by-step instructions and delightful photographs make the projects wonderfully easy to follow and every project comes with a choice of three different pattern sizes

only the company of the king’s fool

When they meet again at sixty

' – John Vaillant