The Grand Tour

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Centuries ahead of those “Brits Abroad” tabloid headlines that make us hang our heads in shame, the British were still managing to cause chaos on the continent. The Grand Tour was a chance for upper class boys to kick up their heels and party across Europe under the auspices of an educational expedition, before getting married off and settling down in a massive country pile. A sort of Georgian Gap Year. We look at where they went, what they got up to and what they brought back with them in an age before antibiotics. Support We Are History on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes, mugs and more! Reading List: The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Black Buy books through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund We Are History by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Production by Simon Williams. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History. I'm Angela Barnes.
0:07.6	And I'm John O'Farrell.
0:09.0	You are indeed.
0:10.2	Angela has chosen today's topic.
0:12.9	And it's a little bit different because it's not about one historical event, is it, Angela?
0:17.6	It's more of a sort of fashionable phenomenon of the 16th and 17th century,
0:24.7	maybe 18th century a bit as well. A little bit of the 18th century. No, no, actually no. I've got that
0:29.6	completely wrong. It's a 17th and 18th century. Oh, look at your note. It's a mistake of the 1st,
0:33.4	1700s and I always find that hard to remember that the 1600s of the 17th century.
0:37.5	Yes, we're not professional historians, as you may have gathered.
0:40.5	Or mathematicians, as it turned up.
0:42.5	But anyway, the point is, I've wandered out of the 20th century for this one, John.
0:45.6	It's quite unusual for me, I know.
0:47.5	Because I have chosen this week to talk about the Grand Tour.
0:51.4	Jeremy Clarkson's car program.
0:53.5	No, John.
0:54.2	I know you like fast cars, Angela.
0:55.5	I do like fast cars, John, but I don't like that I like fast cars.
0:59.6	I mean, I don't like Jeremy Clark.
1:00.9	It's complicated.
1:01.7	Anyway, not that Grand Tour.
1:03.8	We're talking today about the Grand Tour, which was basically a sort of gap year for rich boys in the 17th and 18th century. Okay. Did you go on a gap year job?
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