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  • Empiricism

    • June 20, 2020
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    One of the great intellectual themes of eighteenth-century Enlightenment explored by Melvyn Bragg – here.   27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here.   #locke #empiricism #europe #eighteenthcentury #enlightenment #bragg
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  • The 1720 Marseilles Plague and Covid-19

    • June 9, 2020
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      A fascinating article by Lisetta Lovett, describing the parallels between the last major outbreak of plague in Europe and Covid-19 - here. "Three hundred years ago, in the summer of 1720 plague hit Marseilles killing 50,000 people. This was the twentieth occasion in the city’s history and the last major Western European plague epidemic.
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  • Perfect parenting in the eighteenth century

    • May 16, 2020
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        It’s a rare bookshop that doesn’t have shelves groaning under the weight of books advising parents how to rear their offspring.  They are, of course, pretty much guaranteed money spinners, exploiting as they do the anxiety of mums and dads.  The shocking/reassuring reality is that the typical impact of the average parent upon
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