EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 170
EI Weekly Listen — Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistenc…
April 26, 2024
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EI Portraits Podcast: Episode 5
EI Portraits — Nehemiah Wallington: Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys
Vanessa Harding on the God-fearing diarist Nehemiah Wallington whose personality was far r…
April 25, 2024
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 169
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cogn…
April 19, 2024
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 35
EI Talks… the Entente Cordiale
Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe – T.G. Otte examines the com…
April 18, 2024
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 168
EI Weekly Listen — Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness
How did our ancestors think? Read by Leighton Pugh.
April 12, 2024
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EI Portraits Podcast: Episode 4
EI Portraits — Anna Komnene: the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s changing fortunes
Peter Frankopan on the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene who, banished to a convent for her …
April 12, 2024
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