A Healer’s Geste

Review: Great Tales from English History (Volume 3), by Robert Lacey

Great Tales from English History (Volume 3): Captain Cook, Samuel Johnson, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, Edward the Abdicator, and More by Robert Lacey

My rating: 3 of 5 stars MCL. Audio.

Lacey is a good storyteller, and this is the period of history I know least about. The birth of modernity, a sad tale always packaged as progress, which must be good. At the outset of this period, Londoners actually chose disease and death over having the government regulate how they could dispose of their waste. Ah, how the mighty have fallen.

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