What Dominic Sandbrook has said about The Great Game
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 9, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on The Great Game 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 says Britain's central strategic anxiety in the mid-19th century was Russian expansion across Asia threatening India.
“the great anxiety in mid-century Britain is about India. And it's about the enormously rapid expansion of Russian power across Asia”
The Rest Is History: 721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1) (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 54:33
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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