Age of Revolutions

Since 1775 the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been part of debates about what freedom means in America and what America means to the world...

Haiti's first President realised that for his country to be free, slavery would have to be abolished everywhere For a long time the Haitian Revolution was completely forgotten.

Born on Christmas Eve, he was one of the most bizarre radicals of the 19th century The radical past contains a range of characters.

The 'Age of Revolutions' touched many countries - including the so-called 'Austrian Netherlands' In 1789 the began. But it wasn’t alone... Next door, in what’s now Belgium, the ‘Brabant Revolution’ was happening at the exact same time.

Born today in 1770, Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet of Bramcote, was a radical you might not have expected. The decades either side of 1800 – the so-called 'Age of Revolutions' – were a time of closed ranks for the European aristocracy.