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This programme is about the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which flourished from the 1760s until the 1810s. The society was characterised by an interest in scientific progress, with a strong element ...of radical politics and humanitarianism. The programme concentrates on three of its members; Matthew Boulton, Josiah Wedgewood and Erasmus Darwin. It traces their common interests, and the features of their thinking which linked them to the Enlightenment philosophies of continental Europe and Scotland.
This programme is about the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which flourished from the 1760s until the 1810s. The society was characterised by an interest in scientific progress, with a strong element ...of radical politics and humanitarianism. The programme concentrates on three of its members; Matthew Boulton, Josiah Wedgewood and Erasmus Darwin. It traces their common interests, and the features of their thinking which linked them to the Enlightenment philosophies of continental Europe and Scotland.
| Module code and title: | A204, The Enlightenment |
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| Item code: | A204; 09; 1987 |
| First transmission date: | 31-05-1987 |
| Published: | 1987 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:13 |
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| Producer: | Robert Philip |
| Contributors: | Michael Bartholomew; Frank Middlemas |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Erasmus Darwin; Humanitarianism; Josiah Wedgwood; Lunar Society of Birmingham; Matthew Boulton |
| Master spool number: | HOU5829 |
| Production number: | FOUA251K |
| Videofinder number: | 426 |
| Available to public: | no |
