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BBC Documentaries: Season 2007

2007x03 The British Enlightenment
TV-PG

  • 2007-10-21T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
A groundbreaking history of the British Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of England, and the world. Historian professor Roy Porter examines the contributions of 18th-century British scientists, philosophers, economists and industrialists to the era that shaped the destiny of modern Europe.
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