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Killer Fashion
Episode 158
How much do you know about the lethal price people have paid over the centuries to look fashionable?
In today's episode Tom and Dominic are joined by …
4 years, 1 month ago
The Rest Is Politics: Putin in person, Russian influence, and Blair vs Bono
What's Vladimir Putin like to deal with in person? In our new podcast "The Rest Is Politics", Tony Blair's former spokesperson Alastair Campbell and …
4 years, 1 month ago
Byzantium and the Ghosts of Rome
Episode 157
What happened to the Roman Empire after its fall?
In the second of two episodes, Tom and Dominic discuss where Rome endured, how its ghost still haunt…
4 years, 1 month ago
When did the Roman Empire fall?
Episode 156
Tom and Dominic explore what Edward Gibbon called “the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of mankind”: the decline and fall of th…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ukraine and Russia
Episode 155
With eastern Europe apparently on the brink of war and Vladimir Putin citing history as pretext, what exactly is Ukraine? Is it distinct from Russia,…
4 years, 1 month ago
ARCHIVE: The Vikings and the birth of Kyiv
Want to know more about the history of the Vikings in the East and how it relates to modern day Russia and Ukraine? Listen to our bumper episode on t…
4 years, 1 month ago
ARCHIVE: Ukraine and the United Kingdom
With Russia seemingly on the brink of invading Ukraine, here's an episode from our archives on the historical relationship between the UK and Ukraine…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Most Disastrous Party in History
Episode 154
We've all been to some terrible ones, but what is the most disastrous party in human history?
Not at all inspired by recent political events, Tom and…
4 years, 1 month ago
God and the American Empire
Episode 153
On today's episode Tom and Dominic are joined by Friend of the Show, Professor Andrew Preston, to talk about the relationship between the US and reli…
4 years, 1 month ago
American Crusades
Episode 152
On today's episode Tom and Dominic are joined by Andrew Preston, a Cambridge University professor whose new book focuses on religion in American war …
4 years, 1 month ago