The two sides of the Grand Tour- the British appreciation of Art and the real root of upper-class masculinity?

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, what did young aristocrats do once they finished their education? It was in fact not much different to what happens today. Many of the wealthy upper-class children took years out to travel Europe. This kind of travelling carried on all the way until the Napoleonic wars, evenContinue reading “The two sides of the Grand Tour- the British appreciation of Art and the real root of upper-class masculinity?”