The World of 1607

The World of 1607 educational radio series was produced to coincide with a one-year special exhibition at Jamestown Settlement entitled The World of 1607, which places the founding of Jamestown in a global context and focuses on worldwide cultural developments during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The exhibition, running from April 2007 - March 2008, is divided into four distinct cycles, each approximately three months in duration, displaying artifacts from national institutions and eminent private collections around the world. Each exhibit cycle features key themes that provide a historical overview of the events and peoples of the world during the 17th century, which are paralleled in the one-minute radio segments. The first five radio spots in this series of ten focus on theatre, cabinets of curiosities, microscopic and telescopic measurement, European interaction with the Mediterranean, and American colonization tracts. Listeners are directed to web resources through historyisfun.org

Produced at WCVE-FM Richmond in conjunction with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.

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The World of 1607 educational radio series was produced to coincide with a one-year special exhibition at Jamestown Settlement entitled The World of 1607, which places the founding of Jamestown in a global context and focuses on worldwide cultural developments during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The exhibition, running from April 2007 - March 2008, is divided into four distinct cycles, each approximately three months in duration, displaying artifacts from national institutions and eminent private collections around the world. Each exhibit cycle features key themes that provide a historical overview of the events and peoples of the world during the 17th century, which are paralleled in the one-minute radio segments. The first five radio spots in this series of ten focus... Show full description