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  • How the Nazis weaponised Charlemagne

    How the Nazis weaponised Charlemagne
    2025/08/14
    Samuel Rubinstein explores how Nazi historiographers sought to present Adolf Hitler as the heir to Charlemagne. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: A large Sèvres presentation plate celebrating Nazism's alleged debt to Charlemagne. Credit: INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo
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    16 分
  • Why do we get the wrong leaders?

    Why do we get the wrong leaders?
    2025/08/07
    James Vitali reflects on the profound importance of political judgement. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: The front door of Number 10 Downing street. Credit: GreatBritishStock.com / Alamy Stock Photo
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    17 分
  • Why liberal democracies win total wars

    Why liberal democracies win total wars
    2025/07/31
    Journalist Duncan Weldon reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: Second World War-era British propaganda. Credit: Venimages / Alamy Stock Photo
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    17 分
  • No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century

    No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
    2025/07/24
    EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One', Lambert's provocative new study of how Britain maximised its naval and diplomatic prestige to maintain a stable, post-Napoleonic Europe.

    Image: 'A squadron of the Royal Navy running down the Channel' by Samuel Atkins (c. 1760-1810). Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd
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    51 分
  • The rift that doomed the Confederacy

    The rift that doomed the Confederacy
    2025/07/17
    Historian Katherine Bayford exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confederacy from within. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    The rift that doomed the Confederacy | Katherine Bayford

    Image: A statue of Alexander Stephens in the US Congress. Credit: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo
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    29 分
  • The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece

    The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece
    2025/07/10
    This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial - a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle its readers. EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Karolina Watroba, author of Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka, to discuss Josef K’s tragic entanglement with a suffocating bureaucracy.

    Image: Portrait of Franz Kafka. Credit: history_docu_photo / Alamy Stock Photo
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    57 分
  • How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom

    How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
    2025/07/03
    Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars to prominence. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    The Knights Templars and the pursuit of Christendom | Nicholas Morton

    Image: A Victorian illustration of the Knights Templars. Credit: Glasshouse Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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    21 分
  • The lost art of chorography

    The lost art of chorography
    2025/06/26
    The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s most eccentric and mercurial forms. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    The lost art of chorography | Josh Mcloughlin

    Image: Renaissance map of Europe showing England. Credit: World History Archive / Alamy Stock Phot
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    24 分