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Slaves No More
Published: November 16, 2025 22:35
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. … So last time, we watched the Revolution of 1848 hit Austria. As you probably noticed, after word of the revolution in France reached Vienna, events in Vienna mirrored the revolution in France. Days of rising tensions,…
The Fall of Metternich
Published: November 9, 2025 14:49
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. … So getting back to the Revolutions of 1848. Not counting the fun digression on the spectre that was haunting Europe in the 1840s, it was the French Revolution, we left off our story in Paris on the morning of February…
The Specter of the French Revolution
Published: November 2, 2025 15:38
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So today, we are going to talk about the great specter haunting Europe. No, not communism. No one’s even heard of communism yet. I’m talking about the French Revolution. The French Revolution loomed over the middle of the…
The Provisional Government
Published: September 9, 2025 17:42
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Last week saw the ignoble and abrupt fall of King Louis Philippe, who we spent an entire Revolutions podcast series putting in power in the first place. So thanks a lot, man. After years of increasingly out-of-touch…
The Last King of the French
Published: September 7, 2025 19:03
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. We left off last time on the evening of February the 21st, 1848. As we discussed, the government of Prime Minister François Guizot had just said that the recent banquet campaign had not been an exercise in constitutionally…
The Banquets
https://elpidio.org/2025/09/06/the-banquets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-banquets
Published: September 6, 2025 20:43
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Last time, we began the Revolutions of 1848 with an Italian prologue, and watched as years of simmering discontentment on the peninsula blew up in a series of sharp insurrections that saw most of the various Italian Dukes…
The Pope and the King
https://elpidio.org/2025/09/05/the-pope-and-the-king/
Published: September 5, 2025 16:04
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Now we spent the first eight episodes of this series absorbed in big picture background stuff, and we explored the five main geographic areas of a revolutionary interest: France, Germany, the Austrian Empire, Italy, and…
The Political Question
https://elpidio.org/2025/09/04/the-political-question/
Published: September 4, 2025 21:02
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Welcome to the last of our groundwork laying episodes, where we discuss the details of the political question hanging over Europe in the 1840s, a political question that would merge with the social question we talked about…
The Hungry Forties
https://elpidio.org/2025/09/03/the-hungry-forties/
Published: September 3, 2025 19:42
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. When we began this series by introducing the volcano upon which Europe was sleeping at the dawn of 1848, I introduced the two great questions that loomed large in the equation, the political question and the social…
The Kingdom of Hungary
https://elpidio.org/2025/09/01/the-kingdom-of-hungary/
Published: September 1, 2025 18:58
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Today, we tackle a subject about which I must admit my total ignorance about until I began this series on the Revolutions of 1848, the Kingdom of Hungary. Now, I have plenty of natural background in most of European and…