Julie Flavell
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Julie Flavell

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Go to my website: https://julieflavell.com/ or read my bio below: I was born in the United States and grew up in Massachusetts, where I acquired a life-long interest in the American Revolution. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, I gained my PhD in history at University College London. I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1999. I now live in Scotland with my husband, who is British. I have lectured in American history at Dundee and Edinburgh Universities, where I specialized in the Revolutionary era. A lifetime spent toggling between America and the UK has led me to ponder exactly when and how Britons and Americans began to think of themselves as separate peoples. My first book, "When London Was Capital of America", explores the period just before the American Revolution through the experiences of individual colonists in London, and shows that Americans still saw themselves as British - and were seen as such in their capital city - right up to the start of the American Revolution. Despite this, my book also reveals that America's British heritage is not a simple story of Anglo-Saxon roots. Seen through London eyes, the American colonists were a very diverse people who came from all parts of the Eighteenth century British empire, including Africa. It was in quest of material for a sequel about London during the American Revolution that I came across the letters of Caroline Howe in the British Library. The men of the Howe family were Anglo-American heroes by the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763. The story of how, just twelve years later, their role in the American Revolution transformed them into foreigners in a land they had spilt their blood to defend is told powerfully through the medium of family history. "The Howe Dynasty" radically recasts the American War of Independence as a civil war by telling it through the eyes of the Howe women.
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    • The Howe Dynasty

    • The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America
    • Written by: Julie Flavell
    • Narrated by: Polly Lee
    • Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-20
    • Language: English
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