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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Travel poster encouraging tourists to visit Blackpool.
An opulent fresco in Renaissance Florence.
Thai mural in the temple of the Emerald Buddha, Bangkok.
Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle.
Mosul's old city destroyed by bombing.
Man as Industrial Palace, a poster commissioned by German physician and author Fritz Kahn in 1926.
Renaissance-era woodcut of King Louis IX of France and his army disembarking at Damietta, Egypt, in 1249. In a common anachronism, the army and fleet are equipped with cannons.
Niccolò Machiavelli. Credit: / Alamy Stock Photo
Chinese poster from the Sino-Japanese War.

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