Browse the 18th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 鈥� 1731).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the 18th Century gin craze.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
