Jubilees (TRIH ep 190)
1897 · Resource
The episode surveys the history of British royal jubilees as national temperature checks, from George III's morale-boosting 1809 celebration during the Napoleonic Wars through Queen Victoria's late‑Victorian golden and diamond jubilees (1887, 1897) — which foreground empire, Indian connections (Abdul Karim) and Fenian terrorism — to George V's modest 1935 silver jubilee and Elizabeth II's more recent jubilees (1977, 2002, 2012) that reflect changing public moods and popular culture. Dominic a...
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Around 1897
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)