The 1650s: Britain's Decade Without a Crown
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is There a Creative Anarchy?
There's a freshness to fashion science at this point in world history. New people are being promoted and there is creative anarchy as well. In order to keep your job, you had to sign an oath saying that you supported the regime. And so all these young scientists in oxford, for example, are suddenly given these very senior posts. It really sort of accelerates madly, the movement of ideas and so on. Similarly, it comes to entertainments, because theatres were closed down because they were seen as places where plotting ande royalist schemes could be hatched. People had to be inventive bcause people sill, wanted to have fun.
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