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The 1650s: Britain's Decade Without a Crown

Dan Snow's History Hit

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What's the Right Structure for a Society?

From your book, there seems to cut off people either really reimagining society or doing things in ireland. And yet, there's quite a lot of utopian thinking rel that there's quite alot of reorganizing, isn't ther? Lik after the french revolution, when people like napoleon are able to slash through al these years of conservatism and sort of semi feudal structures. For some reason, there was something in the air, wasn't there? That people were prepared to have a dig at making big changes.

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