{"id":406,"date":"1858-05-30T11:24:15","date_gmt":"1858-05-30T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/?p=406"},"modified":"2025-06-01T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:11:01","slug":"atlantic-cable-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/atlantic-cable-1858\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-37cee840279ff65e6c293de71afe37ce has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-73128380 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/05\/Atlantic_cable_Map-1024x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/05\/Atlantic_cable_Map-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/05\/Atlantic_cable_Map-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/05\/Atlantic_cable_Map-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/05\/Atlantic_cable_Map.jpg 1493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-base-2-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/05035975\/\" style=\"border-radius:15px\">Browse <em>Howe&#8217;s Adventures<\/em> in the Library of Congress online archives<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">This map shows the Atlantic Cable laid in 1858 to enable telegraph communications between Europe and America. It is an illustration by an unknown artist, from Howe\u2019s Adventures &amp; Achievements of Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-color has-accent-3-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-bc84d99e078f75222dc1fa61e18e5db4 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c1e34c7d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-189a6e74 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-884ca139 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"min-height:100%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-3534fb9a0ec28504e6cb58c7f605e375\">Who shared this example?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-388 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-contributor tag-chris-mourant\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color wp-elements-e1072a07f86d55e07bd46137b693dca8 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-base-2-color\">Chris Mourant<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Dr Chris Mourant is Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He researches twentieth-century literature and culture, with particular focus on modernism and networks of transnational connection, communication, and exchange.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/chris-mourant\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howe\u2019s Adventures and Achievements of Americans illustrates the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph cable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"gallery-post","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,7],"tags":[21,18,20,19,17],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-mourant","category-gallery","tag-atlantic-cable","tag-c19","tag-map","tag-networks","tag-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/globalcommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}