Andrew Marr’s History of the World
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- Episode
- Episode 6 - Revolution
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (58 mins)
- Description
- In the 17th and 18th centuries, people across the world rose up in the name of freedom and equality against the power of the church and monarchy. Andrew Marr investigates the effects of the Enlightenment as it spread throughout Europe, with Galileo in Venice revolutionizing the way we saw humanity’s place in the universe, to Edward Jenner in England using science to help save the lives of millions from Smallpox. At the Taj Mahal in India, Marr reveals how the Mughal Empire was left weakened by strict Muslim emperor Aurangzeb, leaving it an easy conquest for Britain. The British were also conquering new lands, Marr tells of Captain James Cook claiming New South Wales for Britain, and attempting to befriend and civilise the Aboriginal Bennelong. A time of great revolutions, the American Revolution started at the Boston Tea Party, freeing themselves from British tax, and British rule. At the fortress and prison Bastille in Paris and at Versailles Palace, Marr tell us of the bloody French Revolution beheading King Louis XVI and deposing of the aristocracy, only for army general Napoleon to then crown himself as Emperor of France in the Notre Dame Cathedral. Inspired by the French revolution, the slaves of Haiti started a slave revolt against their masters, the French.
- Genre
- Medicine; History; Philosophy and Ethics; Architecture; Science; Technology; Religion; Art and Design
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Andrew Marr’s History of the World". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83199 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)