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The Howe Dynasty was honored as one of five Finalists for the 2022 George Washington Book Prize, Mount Vernon, May 25, 2022
The Howe Dynasty was awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award 2021 Honorable Mention
August 12, 2021 – The Howe Dynasty was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice: ‘Two Howe brothers led — and lost — Britain’s military campaign to retain its American colonies. Drawing on records left by female Howes of the period, including the eldest sister, Caroline, Flavell has written a detailed history of a family whose reputation has languished in opaque ignominy. It’s a “vibrant” book, our reviewer Rick Atkinson writes, in which “Flavell’s scholarship and deft storytelling add nuance, sympathy and granularity to the family portrait.”’
Monticello Book Launch, 9 November 2010
9th November, 2010
A book launch was held at Monticello’s Jefferson Library for Julie Flavell’s When London Was Capital of America. Dr Flavell’s talk, ‘Why Georgian London Needs an American Makeover’, began at 4pm, followed by a reception and book signing at 5.
Summary: Georgian London is considered to be quintessentially British, but the eighteenth century was a time when American influences were stronger than ever in the capital of the British empire. Focussing on the story of a South Carolina plantation owner and his slave in London in the 1770s, Dr Flavell shows that colonial Americans were becoming an accepted part of the London scene just before the American
Revolution, but they were also provoking challenging questions about the contradictions between British liberty and an empire founded on slavery.