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  1. A World Re-Shaped by Writing

    3/3 Tracing the roots of today's globalised Britain to a 17th-century golden age of writing.

  2. The Rewritten Universe

    2/3 How the 17th century's writing revolution helped rewrite our vision of the world.

  3. The Written Self

    1/3 Tracing our modern sense of self back to when ordinary people first took up the quill.