From the Bastille to Berlin

A global war and its fiscal consequences allowed new ideas to take root in the English colonies of North America

In this sidetrack from the narrative, I discuss developments in science. Plus there's Bacon.

In the 18th century, Scotland became an unlikely center of European intellectual life.

The Stuarts were back for a while, but Constitutional government was here to stay along with a new concept: human rights.

Meanwhile, across the channel, all was not civil in the state of England

The revolution of 1789 started at the Estates-General, but what were the estates anyway?

A podcast about the western world in the age of ideologies

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