Professor Tim Blanning joins Melvyn Bragg to discuss the events of 1848 on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.
You can listen again to the programme by visiting the In Our Time page of the BBC Radio 4 website.
Tim Blanning is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History. His latest book Romantic Revolution was published by Orion in paperback in 2011.
This is an archived news story, first posted in 2012.
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