Dickens (In Our Time)
1836 · Resource
To celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years presenting In Our Time, five well-known fans of the programme have chosen their favourite episodes. The singer Joan Armatrading has selected the episode about Charles Dickens and recorded an introduction to it. (This introduction will be available on BBC Sounds and the In Our Time webpage shortly after the broadcast and will be longer than the version broadcast on Radio 4).
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1836
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)