Londoners
Resembling laboratories where experiments are conducted in the art of handling, sharing and humbling power, cities have always played a vital role in the history of democracy. London – a bubbling democratic cauldron of differences – is no exception.
These videos are short stories of characters, some rather less well known than others, who helped make it what it is today.
John Wilkes
The videos in this series are short stories about Londoners, some rather less well known than others, who helped make the city what it is today. In this short video Professor John Keane talks about John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft, a Londoner
The videos in this series are short stories about Londoners, some rather less well known than others, who helped make the city what it is today. In this short video Professor John Keane talks about Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist.