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Magnificent Rebels with Andrea Wulf
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Magnificent Rebels with Andrea Wulf

In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind…

I spoke to Andrea Wulf about her amazing book Magnificent Rebels, which brings historical figures to life whose echoes I had heard loud and clear during my time in Jena in central Germany where I studied history and they dreamt up new ways of thinking, loving, writing and creating over 200 years earlier.

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