What Dominic Sandbrook has said about Charge of the Light Brigade
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 9, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on Charge of the Light Brigade once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on November 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sandbrook cites Stefanie Barczewski's argument that Victorians fixated on disasters to cope with the moral ambiguities of empire.
“she argues that basically the Victorian public became fixated on stories of ludicrous disasters because it enabled them to cope with the moral ambiguities of empire”
The Rest Is History: 721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1) (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 6:29
Episodes
721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Nov 9, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a series on the Charge of the Light Brigade, profiling Lords Cardigan and Lucan and tracing the Crimean War's origins.
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