Tuesday, 19 May 1 airing
21:00
BBC Four
S2 E4 · The Wrong Empire (1750-1800)
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Historian Simon Schama continues his epic journey through time with a look at the 18th century. Renowned for being a period of economic growth that laid the foundations for the modern parliamentary state, it was also a time of uncertainty as the Jacobite claim to the throne threatened to undermine the progress of new forces in British society