The Year of Revolutions: 1848 (TRIH ep 326)
1848 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Sir Christopher Clark about his wide-ranging book Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848–1849. The conversation situates the 1848 revolutions in their social, economic and communicative contexts—bad harvests of 1846–47, urban discontent, political plurality (many competing socialisms and liberalisms), and the accelerating spread of news across Europe.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1848
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)