utopia

L'Economie selon William Morris (France Culture)

arts & crafts, capitalism, Great Exhibition, Industrial Revolution, News from Nowhere, pre-raphaelites, socialism, utopia, waste, William Morris

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Lew Lanark - World Heritage Site

Industrial Revolution, New Lanark, Robert Owen, scotland, social reform, utopia

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How Utopia Shaped the World

Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Robert Owen, Thomas More, Utopia, William Morris

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An English lawyer, statesman, writer and saint, Thomas More was a strange character. Born in 1478, he was progressive in some ways (he educated his daughters to a very high level) while also clinging to archaic customs (he wore hair shirts). An establishment...

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Thomas More, UTOPIA

Thomas More, Utopia

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Six heures de travail par jour ! Cette utopie lança un genre littéraire et servit, par sa modernité, de boîte à idées à bien d'autres. Mais gardons-nous de tout anachronisme ! Voyons d'abord son contenu, en compagnie de Thierry Martens, imprimeur à Louvain,...

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Thomas More

Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Tudor, Utopia, Wolf Hall

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No matter how controversial the standing of a great statesman, the passing of almost 500 years since his death might be expected to settle opinion one way or the other. Yet the power of a popular historical account, most recently Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker...

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