A History of Britain S03E01 · Forces of Nature (1780 - 1832)

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Britain never had the kind of revolution France experienced in 1789, but came close to it. This programme explains how 'the romantic generation' discovered the politics of sympathy with the common man. Nature was turned into a revolutionary idea by radicals and poets like Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth, and events across the channel following the fall of the Bastille initially seemed to point a way forward for Britain. But when the terrifying reality of the French Revolution set in, nature was recruited by the patriots.

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1. 1 1. Forces of Nature (1780 - 1832)2002-05-28 · 1h 0mBritain never had the kind of revolution France experienced in 1789, but came close to it. This programme explains how 'the romantic generation' discovered the politics of sympathy
2. 2 2. Victoria and Her Sisters (1830 - 1910)2002-06-04 · 1h 0mQueen Victoria came to the throne at the tender age of eighteen, to rule over a country in the throes of a painful but supercharged industrial transformation. Chaos and revolution
3. 3 3. The Empire of Good Intentions (1830 - 1925)2002-06-11 · 1h 0mThe British Empire promised peace, stability and prosperity but in Ireland and India it coincided with violence and famine. The programme examines the origins of agonies which con
4. 4 4. The Two Winstons (1910 - present)2002-06-18 · 1h 0mSchama's last programme is a meditation on the place of the past in Britain's 20th-century history. Personified in the sharply different reactions of two of its greatest figures,