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french revolution
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Robespierre and the Politicians’ Terror' with Marisa Linton (Kingston University). | Marisa Linton | 10 May 2017 | |
| 2 | Great men and fallen heroes | Jessica Goodman explores how the meaning of ‘hero’ shifted in France in the late eighteenth-century in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday. | jessica Goodman | 08 Feb 2016 | |
| 3 | The French Revolutionary Terror: Proto-Totalitarian or Public Sphere? | Professor Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London) delivers the annual Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation at Wolfson College, Oxford | Colin Jones | 20 Nov 2015 | |
| 4 | The French Revolution in a Global Perspective | A lecture by the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography, Lynn Hunt. | Lynn Hunt | 29 May 2014 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Godwin and his historical context | A discussion of the historical period in which William Godwin was writing and the social and political pressures that he was working under at the time. | Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy, Ellen Sandford O'Neill | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 6 | Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal | Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the influence of Islam in Post-Colonial Africa, in particular, the public spaces of the former French Colonial City of St Louis in Senegal. | Mamadou Diouf | 16 Jun 2009 | |
| 7 | Freedom and its Betrayal: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1952) | Berlin lectures on Rousseau's The Social Contract and discusses Rousseau's anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast for the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. | Isaiah Berlin | 14 Apr 2009 |