Regency scandal and the history of canals

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🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Historical author Geraldine Roberts talks about a disastrous Georgian marriage that filled the newspapers of the day. Meanwhile, Professor Emma Griffin visits a historic canal to explain how these waterways helped to fuel the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.8	William and Catherine, this dynamic between them, they were the angel and the cad, it really captured the public imagination.
0:50.7	And they became their first ever celebrity couple.
0:55.5	That was Geraldine Roberts, talking about her new book on a Regency scandal.
1:00.0	A lot of what the canals are doing are not necessarily promoting industrialisation.
1:03.4	They're also just allowing the economy to grow more broadly. And that was Emma Griffin, discussing the history of canals.
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2:10.0	By the time that she was 16, Catherine Tilney Long was the wealthiest heiress in Regency England.
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