London’s Golden Age: Sex and Scandal in Georgian Britain (TRIH ep 651, part 2)
1760 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace James Boswell’s whirlwind early career in 18th‑century London, his desperate search for moral guidance, and his subsequent Grand Tour of Europe.
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Around 1760
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)