A Christmas Carol (In Our Time)
1843 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' novella, written in 1843 when he was 31, which has become intertwined with his reputation and with Christmas itself.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1843
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)