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EI Weekly Listen — Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly distracted is nothing new. Historians and policymakers should look to the 17th century for guidance on …
1 year, 9 months ago
EI Talks... marketing Classical music with Richard Bratby
EI's Alastair Benn discusses the condition of Classical music today with Richard Bratby, chief Classical music critic of The Spectator.
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1 year, 9 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
Part statesman, part prophet, Charles de Gaulle knew instinctively that political success and failure are inevitably interlinked, and that history wo…
1 year, 9 months ago
EI Talks... John Law and financial crises with Kwasi Kwarteng
EI's Iain Martin is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng, historian and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, to discuss the turbulent life of the 18th-century fin…
1 year, 9 months ago
EI Portraits — Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland, brave cultivator of the beautiful
Laura Freeman profiles Helen Sutherland, an isolated, austere, and fastidious heiress who dedicated herself to art. Read by Sebastian Brown.
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1 year, 9 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't
Celebrated as predestined shepherd in the glory days of Angela Merkel, Germany in the 2020s is an uncertain giant who has defied expectations, good o…
1 year, 9 months ago
EI Talks... women of the ancient world with Daisy Dunn
The leading classicist Daisy Dunn joins EI's Paul Lay to discuss her new book, The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Wom…
1 year, 9 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history
We cannot afford not to rediscover the fine art, nowadays almost forgotten, of learning from history. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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1 year, 9 months ago
EI Portraits — James Barr on George McGhee, American father to Britain’s Suez Crisis
James Barr profiles the debonair and open-faced diplomat, George McGhee, whose shuttle diplomacy helped accelerate Britain's decline as a player in …
1 year, 9 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order
A new constitutional order is coming. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Credit: Lane Erickson / Alamy Stock Photo
1 year, 10 months ago