Holidays: Byron's Grand Tour (TRIH ep 221)
1809 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the history of holidays, tracing the practice from early pilgrimages and the Grand Tour through Georgian spa towns and Regency seaside resorts. They examine origins and motivations—leisure, self-improvement and status—and describe typical Grand Tour routes (Paris, Switzerland, over the Alps to Italy), tutors or "bear leaders," and the collecting impulse (e.g. Pompeii/Herculaneum finds). The hosts profile notable travellers: Thomas Howard, Inigo Jones,...
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