Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark #foliosociety a portrait of Dickens's own

a portrait of Dickens's own father which evokes a mixture of love

Those who face them in battle are shredded under a rain of furious blows from revving chain weapons

whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture

Discover how he created this beautiful garden

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark #foliosociety a portrait of Dickens's own'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today 'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The Times There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed.