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86. The Enlightenment

Once there was darkness and then there was light. What was the Enlightenment and why did it matter? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the Enlightenment and its path towards reason, science, revolution and the guillotine.

Series
Standalone
Published date
2021-08-16
Year span
1650 – 1789

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