S1E5:Consumers and Conscience
Art That Made Us
5 May 2022TV-14
During the 18th century, Britain saw an explosion of creativity, with enough money, from trade and conquest, to pay for it. But the money had a dark side, with much of this cultural explosion funded by the slave trade. This age of exploitation was also stirring up a growing social conscience, with artistic works expressing protest and the inventing forms such as the biting political cartoon.
