The EI Podcast

The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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An excerpt from Nehemiah Wallington's diary
Caricature of a Cambridge University library in the Georgian era.
First prize winner at the Covent Garden fancy dress ball in 1905, a lady dressed in an elaborate costume as the Entente Cordiale.
A play is performed in an ancient Greek theatre.
Anna Komnene, a Byzantine princess and scholar.
Triple-microscope made by the optician Camille Sebastien Nachet in Paris.
Anarchist outrage at the Liceo theatre in Barcelona, 1893.
Nesting Russian dolls showing former leaders.
Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica.