Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries were public social places where men would meet for conversation and commerce. For the price of a penny, customers purchased a cup of coffee and admission.

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  1. Edward Gibbon

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the writer of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the most celebrated works of its kind.

    17 June 2021

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    Featuring: David Womersley, Charlotte Roberts, Karen O'Brien

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    CultureEnglish rhetoriciansFellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish essayistsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBritish MPs 1774–1780British critics of religionsEnglish ProtestantsEnglish male non-fiction writers18th-century English historiansPeople educated at Westminster School, LondonBritish MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituenciesFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England18th-century English non-fiction writersTheorists on Western civilization18th-century English male writersIrony theoristsRhetoric theoristsBritish male essayists

  2. Mary Wollstonecraft

    Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and Barbara Taylor discuss the life and ideas of the pioneering British Enlightenment thinker Mary Wollstonecraft.

    31 December 2009

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, John Mullan, Barbara Taylor

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    PhilosophyEnglish travel writersFeminist theorists18th-century British essayists18th-century English novelistsHistorians of the French RevolutionEnglish women philosophersFrench–English translatorsWriters of Gothic fictionEnglish feminist writers, English feministsBurials at St Pancras Old ChurchBritish philosophers of educationGodwin familyBritish women essayists18th-century British philosophersEnglish philosophersDeaths in childbirthGerman–English translatorsPeople from Somers Town, LondonEnglish UnitariansFounders of English schools and collegesEnglish essayistsEnlightenment philosophersEnglish educational theorists18th-century English historiansEnglish republicansScholars of feminist philosophyEnglish women novelists