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Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.

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From the author of Britons, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas. Linda Colley's new book breaks the boundaries between biography, family stories and global history.

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Based on a 15-part BBC Radio 4 series: What has held the United Kingdom together - and what is driving it apart

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Linda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look different once the captive's perspective is admitted.