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Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment

Not Just the Tudors by History Hit

May 7, 202656:23Society & Culture

How did a ghost story bring London to a standstill? Was it a haunting, a fraud, or something even more revealing about Georgian society? Why did rational, educated people fall for elaborate hoaxes? Professor Suzannah Lip...

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Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment is an episode from Not Just the Tudors by History Hit. How did a ghost story bring London to a standstill? Was it a haunting, a fraud, or something even more revealing about Georgian society? Why did rat...

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