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EI Weekly Listen — Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe
The story of first millennium Europe is one of remarkable economic change and demographic ...
March 22, 2024
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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EI Talks… AI and education
Daisy Christodoulou punctures the hype around the applications of Large Language Models an...
March 21, 2024
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EI Weekly Listen — Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed,...
March 15, 2024
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EI Portraits — Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais: fearless opponent of The Terror
Jenny McCartney on Comte Lanjuinais, who risked his life by defying the Jacobins. Read by ...
March 14, 2024
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EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the end of ‘the end of history’
We equated a brief respite from history with the dawn of a new age. Read by Leighton Pugh.
March 8, 2024
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EI Talks… Werner Herzog
Geoff Andrew, the BFI's programmer-at-large, and film critic Muriel Zagha sit down with EI...
March 6, 2024
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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...
March 1, 2024
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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 b...
February 29, 2024
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EI Weekly Listen — Norman Stone on the 1860s
In the 1860s, commentators might have been justified in forecasting 'the end of history' a...
February 23, 2024