Talk by Peter Laslett
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge It is to early seventeenth-century England that the historian looks for the origins of our twin achievements: modern constitutional government and the settlement of English-speaking societies' overseas. Mr. Laslett talks about two books dealing with these movements : The King's Peace by C. V. Wedgwood , and The English People on the Eve of Colonisation by Wallace Notestein.
(The recorded broadcast of March 6)
