The Real Da Vinci Code (TRIH ep 301)
1956 · Resource
The hosts mark the twentieth anniversary of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and use it to trace a 20th-century lineage of myths about secret bloodlines and hidden manuscripts back to medieval history. They explain how The Da Vinci Code draws on The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) and older local legends centred on Rennes-le-Château, recounting the roles of figures such as the priest Bérenger Saunière, restauranteur Noël Corbu, hoaxer Pierre Plantard and investigator Henry Lincoln.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1956
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)