17th Century
Browse the 17th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Louis XIV: The Sun King
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
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The Shimabara Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
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Mercantilism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
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John Donne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
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Comenius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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The Interregnum
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
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Mary Astell
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
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Macbeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
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The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
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The Treaty of Limerick
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
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Sir Thomas Browne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
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Judith beheading Holofernes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
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The Thirty Years War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
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Hamlet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.
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Aphra Behn
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.
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Johannes Kepler
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
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The Putney Debates
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
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Pascal
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
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The Tempest
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Pocahontas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
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The Microscope
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
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Robert Boyle
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
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Fermat's Last Theorem
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
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