[Live] Paul O'Keeffe: After The Battle of Trafalgar (1806)

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May 12, 202653:23Society & Culture

Live from Dr Johnson's House off Fleet Street in London, in this episode the biographer and historian Paul O'Keeffe takes us on an immersive dive into the year 1806. This was a time when both the British and the French a...

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