What the Stuarts Did for Us

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  • Premiered: Oct 2002
  • Episodes: 8
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  • BBC
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  • Documentary

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Season 1
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Seeying the Worlde
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Sep 23, 2002
Among many enduring Tudor inventions were the pencil, enabled by the discovery in Wales of what for the long time would be the only graphite pit in Britain, the telescope, perspective .. show full overview
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The Thynkynge Revolution
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Sep 30, 2002
During this era there were the most striking transformations of our understanding of our place in the Universe. Adam explains how Tudor ides of astronomy were revolutionsed by the .. show full overview
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The Goode Lyfe
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Oct 07, 2002
The Wars of the Roses concluded, Britain could finally afford to reap some of the rewards of civilization. In this programme we see the vast opulence of the most richest woman in .. show full overview
1x4 Season finale
War Machyne
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Oct 14, 2002
Adam looks at the development of Tudor weapons of war, taking in unpleasant implements of torture, cryptography, and casts his own cannon out of pure iron and test fires it! (What the Tudors Did for Us Episode 4)
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Desygner Livinge
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Oct 21, 2002
Adam Hart-Davis examines innovations from the Stuart period that had a lasting impact on British society. The great fire of 1666 devastated the capital, giving Christopher Wren the .. show full overview
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The Applyance of Science
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Oct 28, 2002
Adam Hart-Davis examines interesting innovations from the Stuart period that shaped the world we live in today. He describes how Britain became one of the world's leading scientific .. show full overview
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The Organysed Isle
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Nov 04, 2002
Adam Hart-Davis examines innovations from the Stuart period that had a lasting impact on British society. This programme looks at how, under the Stuarts, life became much more organised. .. show full overview
1x4 Show finale
Newe Worldes
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Nov 11, 2002
Adam Hart-Davis examines innovations from the Stuart period that had a lasting impact on British society. In this programme, he journeys to the new worlds that Stuart scientists were .. show full overview

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