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BiographiconPreach It!A major influence on the radical Thomas Spence, James Murray was a preacher who used the pulpit and print to promote new ideas. As well as publishing works on religious subjects, Murray was also a grammarian whose book The Rudiments of the English Tongue was published in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in about 1771.In this episode Rachel Hammersley joins me in Newcastle’s Lit and Phil to discuss Murray’s influence in the region at a critical moment in its political and cultural development.Rachel Hammersley is Professor of Intellectual History at Newc...2024-03-2149 min
In Our Time: PhilosophyCondorcetMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94), known as the Last of the Philosophes, the intellectuals in the French Enlightenment who sought to apply their learning to solving the problems of their world. He became a passionate believer in the progress of society, an advocate for equal rights for women and the abolition of the slave trade and for representative government. The French Revolution gave him a chance to advance those ideas and, while the Terror brought his life to an end, his wife Sophie de Grouchy 91764-1822) ensured his influence into the next century and beyond. 2024-02-0850 min
In Our TimeCondorcetMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94), known as the Last of the Philosophes, the intellectuals in the French Enlightenment who sought to apply their learning to solving the problems of their world. He became a passionate believer in the progress of society, an advocate for equal rights for women and the abolition of the slave trade and for representative government. The French Revolution gave him a chance to advance those ideas and, while the Terror brought his life to an end, his wife Sophie de Grouchy 91764-1822) ensured his influence into the next century and beyond. 2024-02-0850 min
Girls Gone HallmarkChristmas IslandAre you ready for some holiday cheer? Girls Gone Hallmark is back with a brand new Hallmark movie review, and this time Megan and Wendy are chatting about "Christmas Island" starring Andrew Walker and Rachel Skarsten. So grab some hot cocoa (or call downstairs for a coffee) and settle in for a hilarious and heartwarming discussion of "Christmas Island" on Girls Gone Hallmark. Apple Podcast listeners: Use your phone’s podcast app -> find the Girls Gone Hallmark show -> scroll all the way down to the review section -> tap 5 stars and tell listeners why Girls Gone Hallmark is yo...2023-11-1630 minGirls Gone HallmarkChristmas IslandAre you ready for some holiday cheer? Girls Gone Hallmark is back with a brand new Hallmark movie review, and this time Megan and Wendy are chatting about "Christmas Island" starring Andrew Walker and Rachel Skarsten. So grab some hot cocoa (or call downstairs for a coffee) and settle in for a hilarious and heartwarming discussion of "Christmas Island" on Girls Gone Hallmark. Apple Podcast listeners: Use your phone’s podcast app -> find the Girls Gone Hallmark show -> scroll all the way down to the review section -> tap 5 stars and tell listeners why Girls Gone Hallmark is yo...2023-11-1630 min
eCommerce MasterPlaneCommerce Growth Experts Mashup inc Ian Hammersley and OmnisendChloe is joined by a host of eCommerce experts to answer the question "What is your top tip for growing an eCommerce business in 2020?"The answers are VERY wide-ranging from delivery to international, lots of marketing tips, and much more. Our experts include:Chris Dawson from Tamebay;Ian Hammersley from Smartebusiness, Lucy Bloomfield of 10,000 Customers; Rachel Jacobs from eCommerce Partnerships, Ria Fiscina from Parkfield, Alex O'Byrne from WeMakeWebsites Rytis Lauris from Omnisend. There's so much in this episode you're going to listen more than once!Find all...2020-01-3022 mineCommerce MasterPlaneCommerce Experts Top Tips inc Ian Hammersley and WeMakeWebsitesChloe is joined by a host of eCommerce experts to answer the question "What is the most important thing we learnt in eCommerce in 2019?"The answers are VERY wide ranging from delivery to DTC, from radical transparency to mobile domination. The answers will help you work out your plans for 2020. Our experts include Chris Dawson from Tamebay; Ian Hammersley from Smartebusiness, Lucy Bloomfield of 10,000 Customers; Rachel Jacobs from eCommerce Partnerships, Ria Fiscina from Parkfield, Alex O'Byrne from WeMakeWebsites AND Rytis Lauris from Omnisend. There is so much...2020-01-0924 min
Academy of IdeasAcademy 2018: The Transformation of the Concept of Popular Sovereignty in Early-Modern EuropeA recording of a lecture by Rachel Hammersley at The Academy 2018, a residential weekend organised by the Academy of Ideas. Find out more here.
Rachel Hammersley is senior lecturer, intellectual history, Newcastle University; author, The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France; editor, Revolutionary Moments: reading revolutionary texts
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Popular sovereignty lies at the heart of our modern understanding of democracy government. But what does this concept mean and how did it emerge? In the large states of Northern Europe, for much of the medieval period and beyond, the term ‘sovereign’ was conventionally used to d...2018-08-1100 minIn Our Time: PhilosophyMontesquieuMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an individual's liberty needed protection from the arm of power, checking that by another power; where judicial, executive and legislative power were concentrated in the hands of one figure, there could be no personal liberty. With Richard Bourke
Professor i...2018-06-1449 min
In Our Time: HistoryMontesquieuMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an individual's liberty needed protection from the arm of power, checking that by another power; where judicial, executive and legislative power were concentrated in the hands of one figure, there could be no personal liberty. With Richard Bourke
Professor i...2018-06-1449 min
In Our Time: HistoryMontesquieuMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an individual's liberty needed protection from the arm of power, checking that by another power; where judicial, executive and legislative power were concentrated in the hands of one figure, there could be no personal liberty.
With
Richard Bourke
Professor in the History of Political T...2018-06-1449 min
In Our TimeMontesquieuMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an individual's liberty needed protection from the arm of power, checking that by another power; where judicial, executive and legislative power were concentrated in the hands of one figure, there could be no personal liberty.
With
Richard Bourke
Professor in the History of Political T...2018-06-1450 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNIMontesquieuMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an individual's liberty needed protection from the arm of power, checking that by another power; where judicial, executive and legislative power were concentrated in the hands of one figure, there could be no personal liberty. With Richard BourkeProfessor i...2018-06-1450 minIn Our TimeMontesquieuMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an individual's liberty needed protection from the arm of power, checking that by another power; where judicial, executive and legislative power were concentrated in the hands of one figure, there could be no personal liberty. With Richard Bourke
Professor i...2018-06-1449 min
Lectures in Intellectual HistoryRachel Hammersley - The Republican Theorist as Royal Servant: James Harrington's Civil WarIt is generally accepted that the 17th century republican thinker James Harrington, author of The Commonwealth of Oceania, played very little part in the English civil wars of the 1640s. The one detail that is known about Harrington is that he was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to the captured Charles I. Given the accounts of the positive relations between Harrington and the King, how is it that Harrington came to be one of the most prominent thinkers on republicanism?2016-09-131h 03