London’s Golden Age: The Ghosts of Culloden (TRIH ep 652, part 3)
1773 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore Samuel Johnson’s 1773 journey to the Scottish Hebrides with his companion James Boswell. They set the scene with Johnson’s arrival in Edinburgh, his fascination with the Act of Union, and his lingering Jacobite sympathies, especially for Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie).
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Around 1773
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)