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7 de set. de 2023 · BBC documentary series. Author Adam Nicolson traces the roots of today's globalised Britain to a 17th-century golden age of writing and communication. He rev...
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7 de set. de 2023 · Adam Nicolson explores the 17th century's contradictory attitudes towards the nature of reality. While a puritan struggled to accept ... BBC documentary series.
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3-part BBC documentary series. Adam Nicolson traces our modern sense of self back to the time when ordinary people first took up the quill. At a time of grea...
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27 de mar. de 2017 · Author Adam Nicolson takes an intimate look at the 17th century's diarists and letter writers and how they produced the first great age of self-depiction.
14 de abr. de 2024 · The Written Self. 1/3 Tracing our modern sense of self back to when ordinary people first took up the quill. All episodes of The Century That Wrote Itself.
In The Century That Wrote Itself, the author Adam Nicolson looks at the most revolutionary moment in British history, the 17th century, when reading and writing turned this country upside down. Letter writers, diarists, account-keepers, journalists, religious revolutionaries, lover, enemies – the century was awash in a sea of ink.
Author Adam Nicolson traces the roots of today's globalised Britain to a 17th-century golden age of writing and communication. He reveals a century on the move, a time when London tripled in size and more than 200,000 people emigrated in search of work or God.
