Browse the 17th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Salem witch trials.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
Melvyn Bragg considers the importance of the 17th century Spanish novel Don Quixote.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Quakerism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare.
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the enigma of the life of William Shakespeare
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare’s work that makes it universal.
Melvyn Bragg examines British imperialism and its captives, both slaves and Britons.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss tea, the first truly global commodity.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea that kingly authority derives from God.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Glencoe Massacre of 1692.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether the events of 1688 were really glorious or revolutionary.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
