Description Eighteenth-Century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts.
The past was used.
Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in Eighteenth-Century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English Historical writing.
But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past.
Description Eighteenth-Century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts