USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry (TRIH ep 263)
1812 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the longue durée of Anglo‑American relations in a thematic episode framed as a World Cup special on the United States. They begin with early antagonisms — the War of 1812, impressment and the 1814 burning of Washington — then move through cultural encounters: Charles Dickens’s fraught 1842 visit and publications (American Notes; Martin Chuzzlewit), the rise of American industrial power exemplified by Andrew Carnegie and his Gospel of Wealth, and...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1812
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)