London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (TRIH ep 650, part 1)
1755 · Resource
In this episode of The Rest Is History, hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the extraordinary friendship between Samuel Johnson, the towering literary figure of 18th‑century England, and his young Scottish biographer James Boswell.
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