All Episodes

Beyond the Text: Moderation and Memory: Rapin de Thoyras and the Making of English Party

Beyond the Text: Edmund Burke and the Moral Imagination

History of Ideas Clubs: Industrialisation and Karl Marx

History of Ideas Club: The Birth of the Modern Republic: France, America, Haiti

History of Ideas Club: Revolution of Modernity: Descartes, Kant, Hegel

Beyond the Text: Joseph de Maistre: Order, Authority, and the Counter-Revolution

History of Ideas Club: The Copernican Revolution in Astronomy

Beyond the Text: Augustine’s City of God

History of Ideas Club: The English Civil War

History of Ideas Club: The Gregorian Reforms and the Protestant Reformation: Changing Concepts of Law and State

History of Ideas Club: Rome: From Empire to Republic (and Back Again)

History of Ideas Club: 'And the Word Became Flesh…’: Christianity’s Emergence and Impact

History of Ideas Club: Disraeli and Oakeshott

History of Ideas Club: Roger Scruton

History of Ideas Club: Edmund Burke and the Romantic Poets

History of Ideas Club: Joseph de Maistre

History of Ideas Club: Augustine's City of God

Beyond the Text: Plato's Republic

History of Ideas Club: Plato's Republic

Beyond the Text: Rawls and Sandel

History of Ideas Club: Rawls and Sandel

Beyond the Text: F. A. Hayek: Law, Legislation, and Liberty

The History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series, Hayek.

Beyond the Text: The French Existentialists: Sartre, De Beauvoir, Camus

The History Of Ideas & Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series French Existentialism

Beyond the Text: John Stuart Mill, Linchpin Between Classical and Modern Liberalism

The History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series: John Stuart Mill

Beyond the Text: John Locke, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine - The Quest for Liberty

The History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series, Locke & Paine.

Beyond the Text: Rousseau's Social Contract and the Civic Religion

The History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series, Rousseau.

Explorations - The Plinian Society and the Birth of Evolutionary Science in 19th-Century Edinburgh

Academy to Arena - Rt Honourable Tom Brake (Lib Dem) on Constitutional Reform, Brexit and the Union

Explorations - Science in the Age of Revolutions: the Context of Darwin.

Beyond the Music - Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and King Arthur

Explorations - Transcribing the Bentham Project

The Interviews - Rt Honourable Jesse Norman MP (Con) on "The Winding Stair": Dissecting Francis Bacon's Ambition and the Art of Historical Fiction

The Interviews - Professor Ritchie Robertson on 'The Enlightenment and the Pursuit of Happiness'

Thinkers: Shapers of Political Thought Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine Explored

The Interviews - Professor Anthony Pagden on 'The Enlightenment and Why it Still Matters'.

The Interviews - Professor Denis Lacorne on 'The Limits of Tolerance'

Academy to Arena - The Tyranny of Reason

The Interviews - Professor Dominic Aquila on 'The Church and the Age of Enlightenment (1648-1848)'

Histories - The Enlightenment or the 'Age of Reason'

Explorations - Enlightenment, Encyclopédie and Ernst Cassirer

Academy to Arena - Rt Honourable Hillary Benn MP (Lab): Brexit, COVID-19 and Education

Academy to Arena - 19th Century Cornwall: Popular Protest, Religion and the Path to Brexit

Explorations - Natural Law and Natural Rights

Explorations - Resistance and Reformation

The Interviews - Saviël ter Hart on 'How Should Moral Ideas be Formed?'

Explorations - Meddling with the Medieval

Thinkers - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Pt. 4, The Social Contract & Emile

Thinkers - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Pt. 3, Discourse on Inequality

Thinkers - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Pt. 2, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences

Thinkers - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Pt. 1, Characteristics, Contracts & Confessions

Explorations - All the Classics: Part 2, Confucius (Kong Fuzi) & the Axial Age

Explorations - All the Classics: Part 1, Platonic Thought

Explorations - Interpreting the Past: Skinner and Foucault

Explorations - By the Book: The Rules of Intellectual History