Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (TRIH ep 443, part 4)
1824 · Resource
This episode concludes the hosts' multi-part life-and-times study of Lord Byron. Recounting Byron's post-exile years, Tom and Dominic trace key moments: the misattributed 1819 vampiric tale published under Byron's name (actually John Polidori's work), Byron's stormy encounters at Villa Diodati with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Godwin, the creative outpourings that produced Don Juan and continued Childe Harold, and…
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Around 1824
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)