This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the ...

The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected. Hunger lashed the mid-1840s with a doubly deadly grain and potato crisis (Clark’s ancestors were among the many thousands who fled ...

The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion that ...

It is not great individuals, but mass action which drives history, argues Dominic Alexander in a series on the Great ...

He did not give up. In 1846 he escaped in disguise and fled once again to London, where he remained until France’s 1848 ...

But while the discussions went on in Frankfurt in 1848, the opponents of the revolution were able to mobilize their forces. Even when National Assembly delegate Robert Blum (1807 — 1848 ...

The following is a translation of an article by Pannekoek. Originally published in Arbeiterpolitik no. 47 and 48 (in two ...

Over 350-some brisk pages, Storm sets out to trace how nationalism developed in politics, culture and the arts from the age ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

He eventually became foreign minister after the revolution of 1848 but again backed the losers in the imperial restoration of 1851. Returning to his books, he described in The Ancien Régime and ...