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- Historian Tom Holland shares his fascination at how the events of ancient history can resonate in the modern world. The author of Islam: The Untold Story talks to Dan Snow about the birth of this rich and sophisticated civilisation, tracing its history through the centuries, and its interaction and impact on Christendom and the modern-day western world.
- 2017 was the 70th anniversary of the Partition of the Indian Raj which caused such an epidemic of bloodshed. Oxford's Yasmin Khan has written some great books around this subject and has family recollections to draw from. Yasmin draws you into her world with sparkling storytelling, and then lands a couple of very heavy punches. Turns out, Brits are a bit lazy when it comes to major separations. Once we had decided it was time to go, we actually pulled forward the date and watched as the chaos ensued. Yikes.
- Dan Snow meets the man with whom he is often confused - the heavily tattooed Dan Jones, medieval bestseller - on his brand new opus: 'The Knights Templar'. Shot at the Temple in Central London, this is the physical embodiment of this medieval religious order that also trained warrior monks. This is history that is strong on narrative - and bursting with battles and bloodlust.
- Dr. Amara Thornton talks us through a newly discovered film documenting archaeological excavations at the site of Nineveh.
- In the East Meets West season, this is the starting point. Frankopan's rightly lauded book has done what it said on the cover: created a new history of the world. For way too long we Westerners have been espying history through the lens of our own success. But truth is, Britain only had its moment because some trade winds blew our sailors in a favourable direction, and America was only discovered because Europeans were seeking the Indies. This film is an intimate portrait of Roads that have mattered through history, told to us by Peter himself, looking into the lens, and thereby into our willing hands.
- Margaret MacMillan talks to her nephew Dan about her seminal book 'The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914'. They discuss the importance of storytelling to the historian's process, the ways in which political actors at the time viewed the relation between fate and choice, the role that masculine insecurity played in the build up to the war and also examine the construct of and myths surrounding nationalistic feeling in the pre-war years. They even consider the possibility of an alternate course of events that involved Britain not entering the war at all.
- The Silk Roads primary junction was always Constantinople, now Istanbul - the capital of the Byzantine and then the Ottoman Empire. Today, it should be alarming to Europe that after some rebuttals from the EU, Istanbul is now turning its face back eastwards again, where's there's more on offer. Cambridge's Kate Fleet takes us on a tour of that hugely successful and long lasting empire.
- HistoryHit gets AAA permission to head behind the scenes at top history locations.
- A companion piece to Peter Frankopan's Silk Roads interview - this interview focusses on the immense age of this trans continental trading route. Michael Scott, who's been making waves with numerous television appearances, is a breath of fresh air. Watch out for big things from his department at Warwick University.
- If the standout documentary from our East Meets West season, 'WW2: China's Forgotten War' has left you wanting more then don't miss this companion interview with Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford. Mitter, who presents the documentary and whose book provided the basis for it, talks in depth about the documentary's production, and in particular its use of animation to dramatise key moments of the story. He expands on the historical context and explains why the conflict between Japan and China in 1937 had such a decisive impact on the events of the Second World War.
- Avi Shlaim is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St Antony's College, Oxford. Here he discusses the background and implications of the historic Balfour Declaration of November 1917.
- Dan Jones leads us through the immensely atmospheric Temple in London - the HQ of the warrior monks described in his new book. It leads us to one of the most violent and celebrated men of the Middle Ages: William the Marshall - for there he is, an effigy in stone, with his foot missing.
- It's hard to visualise the Silk Roads unless you have a map, and when it comes to maps, there's one go-to man: Jerry. And in the Bodlean too, where there are one and a quarter million maps. Here he shows Dan just two - both support Peter Frankopan's assertion that big ideas started in the East. But the real star here is a fellow called Ptolemy, watch to find out why.