Episodios

  • Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine

    Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
    Jul 5 2024
    An often-overlooked fact about the current Russo-Ukrainian War is that over the centuries Russia has waged several wars to try to conquer Crimea and the Donbas area. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldoviae, by Johann Baptiste Homann (1664–1724), 1720. Credit: history_docu_photo / Alamy Stock Photo
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    22 m
  • Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload

    Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
    Jun 28 2024
    The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly distracted is nothing new. Historians and policymakers should look to the 17th century for guidance on how to grapple with information overload. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: Rembrandt's 'Portrait of a Scholar', 1631. Credit: PRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy Stock Photo
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    23 m
  • Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion

    Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
    Jun 21 2024
    Part statesman, part prophet, Charles de Gaulle knew instinctively that political success and failure are inevitably interlinked, and that history would be the ultimate judge of both. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: The President of France Charles de Gaulle marches through the streets under the Arc de Triomphe in 1944. Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 m
  • Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't

    Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't
    Jun 14 2024
    Celebrated as predestined shepherd in the glory days of Angela Merkel, Germany in the 2020s is an uncertain giant who has defied expectations, good or bad. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: The top of the Reichstag Building. Credit: Artur Bogacki / Alamy Stock Photo
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    23 m
  • Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history

    Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history
    Jun 7 2024
    We cannot afford not to rediscover the fine art, nowadays almost forgotten, of learning from history. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: 16th Century engraving by Theodoor Galle, titled The Printing of Books. Credit: The Granger Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 m
  • Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order

    Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order
    May 31 2024
    A new constitutional order is coming. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Credit: Lane Erickson / Alamy Stock Photo
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    34 m
  • Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy

    Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
    May 24 2024
    ‘Democracy’ is in Sweden built on a basis fundamentally different from the one associated with the development of liberal democracy in the West. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: Midsummer Dance by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) painted in 1897. A classic of Swedish art history showing traditional folk dancing in the Dalarna countryside in the extended summer evening light. Credit: Universal Art Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
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    35 m
  • Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union

    Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
    May 17 2024
    What is the future of the European Union? The EU is sui generis. It certainly cannot be a nation state. Nor is it destined to turn into a Staatsnation or willed nation. Then what? Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: European Union flags. Credit: Brian Lawrence / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 m