Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (TRIH ep 441, part 2)
1812 · Resource
This episode (the second in the hosts' multi-part study of Lord Byron) follows Byron's formative 1809–1811 travels and the composition and effects of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Holland and Sandbrook discuss Byron leaving Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, his travels through Portugal, Spain and Albania, and his encounters with figures such as Ali Pasha and the Ottoman court.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1812
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)