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EI Weekly Listen — Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
Napoleonic geopolitics didn't make much impression on Europe's maps, but its influence was wide-ranging. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Napoleonic Europe: h…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Portraits — Aspasia of Miletus: queen of the Athenian salon
Armand D'Angour on Aspasia of Miletus, wife of Pericles and friend to philosophers. Read by Sebastian Brown.
Image: 19th Century lithograph of Aspa…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Norman Stone on the 1860s
In the 1860s, commentators might have been justified in forecasting 'the end of history' and lauding universal progress. History was to return with a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Worldview — Ukraine, two years on
Two years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a solution, military or diplomatic, seems as far away as ever.
On Worldview, leading historians and…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game
From the Engelsberg Ideas Archive. States are back and they're out to challenge the international order.
Image: Vladimir Putin captured from screen.…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Talks... Horace
Llewelyn Morgan, author of Horace: A Very Short Introduction, joins EI's Paul Lay to explore the Augustan poet's vast and complex legacy.
Image: Bus…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda
Al-Qaeda's success in Yemen can in part be explained by the group's adept use of poetry as propaganda. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: An al-Qaeda log…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Talks... the Edwardians: the calm before the storm
Alwyn Turner, author of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, speaks to Paul Lay about the early 20th century, an age of anxiety.
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1 year, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
From the Engelsberg Ideas Archive. The organisation that emerged under the name ISIS is not simply a terrorist group. It is a hybrid organisation com…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Talks... can Israel win the peace?
Ahron Bregman, author of Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories, outlines his vision for a lasting peace between Israel, Pa…
1 year, 11 months ago