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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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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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27 de mar. de 2017 · The Century That Wrote Itself. Home. Episodes. Clips. 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...
20 de fev. de 2024 · A World Re-Shaped by Writing. 3/3 Tracing the roots of today's globalised Britain to a 17th-century golden age of writing. The Rewritten Universe. 2/3 How the 17th century's writing revolution...
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.
10 de abr. de 2013 · The Century that Wrote Itself In a new three-part series for BBC Four, author Adam Nicolson takes an intimate look at the diarists and letter writers of the 17th century who produced the first great age of self-depiction.
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.