“One hell of a fun history podcast” (Daisy Dunn) Travels Through Time is a mix of serious history and playful parlour game. Each episode features an interview with one of the world’s leading historians or public figures. They are asked the question: “If you could travel back in time, what year would you like to visit?” And then they tell us why.
I’m surprised he doesn’t mention the most commonly known explanation of the succession policy of the Ottomans, that Sultan Bayezid’s wife was captured by Timur (Tamerlane), after which many Sultans vowed not to marry and have legitimate wives at all to avoid possible humiliation.
Granted, the number of resources are limited for this era, but there are many that this historian does not use. I've only listened for 25 minutes and can't listen any longer. There are several omissions of events and occurrences - that are backed up by credible sources - which presents a more complete/accurate depiction than what he has relayed so far. Very disappointing.
Over my 28 years as a lecturer I met many students from India. They all seemed to believe that the India fought the war for the British. They had been taught this at school; the INA was viewed favourably and few had any idea of the threat that Japan had for India. I lent my copy of Defeat in to Victory to a number of them and had interesting conversations with some of their fathers (who had not served) and a couple of Grandfathers who had. The Grandfathers knew exactly why they fought and knew that only by cooperating with the British could India avoid Japanese control. I took a photograph of one of the grandsons standing in front of Slims statue in London holding a photo of his Grandfather who was coming close to his end. I was told the Grandfather was in tears when he saw the photo! Not the reaction of an oppressed man. It is most important that current Indian young people are made aware of what their great Grandfathers did!
Charles Spencer is a good historian. I have read all his books and I always look forward to the next! Thanks for this interesting and informative podcast.
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There were “woodland” bison in North America eastern states up until early 19th century. Don’t know if they were a different species than plains bison, or just the same in different environments. Keep in mind that bison and aurochs eat brush as well as grass, with great environmental impacts vis a vis vegetative successions. Also different varieties of elephants, not only wooly mammoths, must have had profound effects on forested regions. I’ve often wondered about the effects of anthropogenic fire over the last 35 thousand years in both hemispheres. The forests in an eastern US were quite different until native Americans were no longer around (early 1800s) to “farm” forests using ground fires etc. lots of complaints about how underbrush had grown up, thickened, in this period. Changed in settler lifetimes. Hard to study this in earlier times, of course.
Eemian: Geology climate question. Do we know which volumes /areas of ice melted in the rapid Eemian sea level rise that may have remained in the current interstadial. (At least up to present).
A third of Florida would have been like current Florida Bay, thousands of square miles o to thirty feet deep with occasional blue holes. Very similar to the Bahamas today.
Love Rutherford but I'm not gonna lie. I'm still praying that Dirk, May-may, Robb, Culum, Tess, Malcolm, Angel, Brock and Gornth are at play somewhere in his text.
Your presentation is very timely with respect to the huge corruption and upending of social order attempts in the USA at present by a tyranical candidate.
Great discussion. I’ve always felt that Cromwell was killed when the King realized his accumulated power and independent will and, most importantly, his ability to dissemble which probably rivaled his own. The King had replaced Wolsey, no reason for him to believe he couldn’t replace Cromwell. Squandered resources.
Knowledge of Yosiah is evident but his spin (opinion) I do not appreciate: Jan 6 almost killing REPUBLIC with armed insurectionists. I already smell DTS. otherwise I like it.
Not unheard of. Intelligent people of UK could already foresee trouble with the USSR. You are too young to have heard this talk as a child. Many of us heard this talk. The obvious thing was for Germany to turn with us against USSR and settle their hash. Then sort the Germans. However it could not be done because of the concentration camp outrage. If the Germans had behaved in a civilised manner, things would have been very different and the world perhaps not in such a perilous state.
Thank you for this very interesting discussion. I am working on Katyn Massace related topisc in Wikipedia and on the memorials of the victims on findagrave. The very much appreciate the approach chosen by Jane Rogoyska.
When comparing both Monty & Bill Slim & asking whether each army-commander could have done the other’s job to the same effect & high degree, I would have said yes definitely they both could have probably performed each one’s position interchangeably, successfully . However, if the question was next asked, “Between Monty & Slim, who could have replaced Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of SHAEF - Europe, then disregarding nationality, political & other related issues, then I would have said only Slim would have been able to carry himself successfully in that job, as he undoubtedly possessed the personality, the diplomatic skills, the technical-nous & operational experience but additionally, Bill Slim also was a people person who could relate to either Kings, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Generals alike, but not solely exclusively to the most eminent of people, as he could equally make the newest private soldier or 2nd Lieutenant feel equally at ease in his presence too! As observed by former infantry private & subsequently junior officer George MacDanald Fraser in his book & personal recollections & reflections of his wartime experiences over the period, 1944-45 in Burma, in “Quartered Safe Out Here!” I understand in the historical context that Eisenhower’s job had to be carried out by an American General for political reasons, but what I am saying is that in other circumstances, Slim could have replaced him & done an equally credible job too!
Slim was able to get on with Vinegar Joe Stilwell, which very few Americans could. If that doesn't say something about Slim's character then nothing will.
Yes, I once thought that Stilwell only hated the British but after the way he treated Galahad and Merrill, and his attitude to Chiang Kai it is clear that he hated everybody.
Interestingly, If you go to Lusaka, Zambia 🇿🇲, you will find that the main Army HQ there is based in Arakan Barracks, indicative & commemorative of the fact that Northern Rhodesian colonial units (Mainly, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment) served with other East African formations in India & Burma during the Second World War!
So much was left out in this video, I thought this would be an in depth analysis of the death of Marlowe. A shame it derailed off topic so soon. Ingram Frizer was supposedly sitting on a bench between Robert Poley and Nicholas Skeres when Marlowe attacked him from behind with a dagger and started pummeling him, but not with the blade. Frizer claimed he was unable to move or defend himself properly as he was seated between the two others... who apparently did nothing. Somehow he was still able to get the blade from Marlowe, who would then have been unarmed, and in this three-to-one scenario Frizer would have been justified to go for the kill and stab him in the eye? Ask the Elizabethan courts and the answer is yes, absolutely. The Queen pardoned Frizer only a month after the murder, which would have been remarkably soon. Afterwards the death of Marlowe was sold to the people as divine retribution for his sins and blasphemy. The dual meaning of "the reckoning" (le recknynge, the bill) was not lost on anyone. The elite wanted Marlowe dead, the murderers knew exactly what they were doing and were sure they would be allowed to get away with it. The other playwrights knew full well at the time that there was much more to the story than the authorities would let on. Yet the atmosphere would have been so oppressive that no one dared utter a word about it. No one except for Shakespeare, who lamented Marlowe's premature and violent demise in "As You Like It" with the ambiguous lines: "When a man's verses cannot be understood nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room." F
Ho letto il libro "God's shadow" di questo autore. Non capisco come un personaggio simile sia arrivato ad incarichi accademici presso Università prestigiose come Yale. Il libro, percorrendo la storia del sultano Selim I, vengono propinate interpretazioni storiche falsate o addirittura inventate allo scopo di glorificare la grandezza dell'impero ottomano e delle sue radici islamiche. Fra le altre, l'assurda teoria che Cristoforo Colombo, dipinto come un avventuriero senza scrupoli, abbia intrapreso il viaggio transatlantico allo scopo di assalire Gerusalemme da est, cogliendo di sorpresa l'Impero ottomano. Non vado oltre, ma ho verificato che i miei dubbi su quest'autore non sono isolati, ma piuttosto condivisi con altri commentatori molto più qualificati di me
God preserve us from Uncompromising principal, idealism, austerity, prigishness, narcissism and charisma; they equal disaster. Give us compromise, pragmatism and survival!
If Colin is correct that Robespierre is moving toward a more moderate position that would involve compromise with the middle, it is even more ironic that he basically killed Danton and company for the same thing
Caesar the narcissistic imperialistic populist, and Cato the fanatically stoic optimate. Talk about dropping a chunk of Caesar's sodium metal into Cato's cheap wine. Bottoms up! If memory serves, Cicero lent two hands to help end the ensuing power struggle.
I am currently listening to Neil’s podcast “The History of the World in 100 Moments”, after finishing “Love Letters the the British Isles”. I learned so very much from him - my favourite historian by far
Maybe it’s not being able to see his facial expressions, but there’s a tone of arrogance in the author’s tone that really makes it hard to listen to for too long.
On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. (Koran Chapter AlMaida Vers 32) This is what motivated Dr. Helmy.
I'm currently reading Pen Vogler's , and enjoying it very much. I have also ordered and I'm looking forward to receiving it. (First saw her on Ash Wednesday on GB News.) I found this podcast quite fascinating; I wish there were more people I knew that were interested in the subject, whom I could point in this direction... I'll now go check out your other offerings...
I just found this- That was FANTASTIC! Especially that latter half when you're both just talking about the subject and your personal thoughts and notions, brilliant 👏 Can't wait to find more! Thank you 😊
It takes a weird kind of figurative b@lls to cut into Mr. Wood’s narrative so many times, and to talk over him when he’s making important observations. I won’t be listening to other offerings, I’m thinking.
You lose all credibility when you start your video out with the statement that Russia was unprovoked. I wonder how long it would take the United States to invade Mexico or Canada if either one of them made a military alliance with China or Russia. Try thinking before running your mouth.
They weren’t just officers who were captured by soviets while retreating from the Germans. Soviets after invading Poland on 3rd September 1939, summoned all Polish army officers from the area soviets were occupying, to assemble and do a so called “roll call”. However, once the officers were assembled, they were taken as POWs. They were murdered and buried in Katyń and other places. My great-great uncle was killed in Katyn. His wife and his mother (my great-great grandmother) were deported and killed also by the soviets. They were family of a murdered Polish officer and they needed the families to also disappear.
In 1916, in the midst of the war, Britain and France signed a secret document agreeing that if they managed to defeat the Ottomans, they would partition Palestine fairly to establish a homeland for the Jews. This was known as the Sykes Picot Agreement. It does seem rather strange that in a World War which is going quite badly for them, Britain would take time out from this extremely pressing situation to even be thinking about a rather obscure faraway land called Palestine, let alone make a firm and far-reaching declaration about it (The Balfour Declaration) in 1917. I have heard that Britain was actually in an extremely dire financial position, and had needed to turn to Jewish financiers to obtain urgent loans. And that for doing this they required the guarantee of a Jewish homeland. I’m not sure how accurate this is?
