Victorian Holidays (TRIH ep 222)
1859 · Resource
This episode is the second part of a mini-series on the history of holidays, concentrating on nineteenth-century tourism. The hosts discuss how travel broadened beyond the aristocratic Grand Tour into middle-class and mass tourism, drawing extensively on Lucy Lethbridge's book Tourists. They trace early package tours to Thomas Cook (1841) and the role of railways, guidebooks and phrasebooks in shaping travel expectations. The episode surveys battlefield tourism after Waterloo, spa tourism acr...
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Around 1859
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- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)