King Solomon's Mines (TRIH ep 332)
1885 · Resource
This episode examines H. Rider Haggard and his formative influence on late-Victorian popular culture, focusing on King Solomon's Mines (1885) and its thematic siblings, notably She. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook outline Haggard's life — his years in South Africa, fascination with the Zulus, brief ostrich-farming interlude, and rapid literary success after reading Treasure Island — then parse the novels' plot devices, racial assumptions and masculine fellowship. They situate Haggard in the...
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Around 1885
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- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
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- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
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