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1848: the year of revolutions
KEITH FLETT looks back 170 years to a year of unrest across Europe
The 1848 revolution in France

IT IS 170 years since the French people overthrew King Louis Philippe and started a chain of events that led to 1848 being known as the “year of revolutions.”

One country that did not have a revolution was Britain and we should expect that point to be echoed again during 2018 by such media as bother to pay attention to history. 

The general drift is that the British are sensible, moderate people not given to sudden outbursts that remove rulers and overthrow governments.

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