Aspects of History

By Oliver Webb-Carter

The editor of Aspects of History, Ollie Webb-Carter, interviews historians and authors on the past - from the ancient world right up to the modern day. In each episode, Ollie seeks to get to the botto... more

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August 06, 2024 Socrates with Armand D'Angour
Armand D'Angour joins to discuss his new pod, but then we go into a really interesting conversation about Socrates and whether he really is the origin of Western Thought? Is there in fact a woman we should be talking about, the beguiling Aspasia.
Armand D'Angour Links
It's All Greek (& Latin) to Me on Spotify
It's All Greek (& Latin) to Me on Apple
Socrates in Love
Ancient Greek Music on YouTube
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August 02, 2024 18th Century Europe with Adam Zamoyski
The French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the Industrial Revolution and the collapse of Poland, all these major events were witnessed by Izabela Czartoryska, a Polish aristocrat who was self-taught and is the subject of Adam Zamoyski's latest book. This episode is a sweeping discussion covering many facets of Europe in the 18th century.
Adam Zamoyski is the author of 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow and Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth.
Adam Zamoyski Links
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
Izabela Czartoryska - Aspects of History
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
YouTube Debate with Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Roberts on Napoleon
Narodnost: Russia and Nationalism - Aspects of History
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47min
July 30, 2024 Books of the Year So Far with The Gang
This week three writers join to talk summer reading recommendations from the world of history and historical fiction.
Books
Paris '44, Patrick Bishop
The King's Mother, Annie Garthwaite
Izabela the Valiant, Adam Zamoyski
Endgame 1944, Jonathan Dimbleby
Sky Warriors, Saul David
The Muse of History, Oswyn Murray
Bonjour, Sophie, Elizabeth Buchan
Iran, Ali Ansari
Spy Masters, Various
The CIA, Hugh Wilford
The Eastern Front, Nick Lloyd
The Sleeping Beauties, Lucy Ashe
Guests
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Antonia Senior - Historical Fiction Reviewer The Times
Roger Moorhouse - Historian
Richard Foreman - Author and Publisher
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1h 28min
July 26, 2024 Europe after the War with Keith Lowe
When war in Europe ended on the 8th May 1945, much of continent was in ruins. Cities were destroyed and civilians were at the mercy of occupying powers, partisans, bandits and criminals. There were no police forces, no judicial system and food was scarce. Keith Lowe joins to discuss the chaos from France to Poland and Greece to Germany.
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
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38min
July 20, 2024 Film Club: Valkyrie (2008)
On the 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attended a meeting at the Wolf's Lair at which Adolf Hitler was present. He placed a briefcase containing high explosives under the conference table and then departed. A few minutes later the bomb exploded killing four, but crucially not Hitler.

This month's film club is Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise, the 2008 depiction of the July Plot. Joining is Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitler, and film maker Tim Hewitt.

Links

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1h 27min
July 16, 2024 Killing Hitler with Roger Moorhouse
On the 20th July 1944, a bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded under a large table over which Adolf Hitler was examining maps of the Eastern Front. The man who had planted the device, Claus von Stauffenberg, had left just before the explosion to initiate the operation that he hoped would lead to the overthrow of the Nazi regime. The plan failed, and Hitler would survive for another 9 months before his suicide on 30th April 1945.

Was this the closest Hitler came to death? What about the November 8, 1939 when Georg Elser so very nearly succeeded where Stauffenberg would fail more than four years later. And what about Allied attempts - Operation Foxley by the British, and then the very strange idea from the American OSS? Roger covers all these in the first part of our series on the 80th anniversary of the July plot.

Part Two continues on Saturday with Valkyrie, the 2008 film starring Tom Cruise.

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Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer

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1h 4min
July 13, 2024 The Ancient Greeks with Oswyn Murray
The Ancient Greeks are the font of all our historical knowledge. Now that's quite a claim, but the historian who joins to discuss makes a strong argument in his book, The Muse of History. Oswyn Murray is one of the country's finest ancient historians and in this chat, beginning with the Peloponnesian War between Athens & Sparta, many subjects are addressed including colonialism, slavery, the wonder of the ancient world, ancient historians fighting in WW1 and WW2 and why we should all learn an ancient language.
Oswyn Murray Links
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
Cover of Thomas Hobbes' translation of Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War
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49min
July 10, 2024 Gladiators & Games with Justin Pollard
The Emperor Vespasian began construction of the Colosseum and it was completed by his son, Titus. Vespasian is played by Anthony Hopkins in the new show, Those About to Die, and Justin Pollard, historical consultant, joins to discuss gladiators, charioteers and the Circus Maximus under the Flavian Dynasty. Those About to Die hits Prime on the 19th July.
Justin Pollard Links
Charge! The Interesting Bits of Military History
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32min
July 06, 2024 Why Do We Go To War? With Richard Overy
When Alexander crossed the Hellespont to invade the Persian Empire in 334BC, he began a thirst for war that could not be sated. Territory was not his aim, nor was power for its own sake. What of Germany in 1914 and 1939? Competition with the great powers in the former case, and a demand for resources in the second were important motivations.
Joining to discuss these and other examples is Richard Overy, historian of the Second World War and the author of many bestselling and award winning books.
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Why War?
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Ollie discusses D-Day on GB News (48mins in)
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34min
July 03, 2024 Boundaries, Borders & Maps with Jonn Elledge
Between 1763 and 1767 two British surveyors, Charles Mason and Nathaniel Dixon, established the dividing line between the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. For the two hundred years since, the Mason Dixon Line became known as the cultural divide between North and South, Union and Confederate. But is that correct?
Jonn Elledge joins to discuss this and other boundaries including Ireland, India & Pakistan, Israel & Palestine, and most controversial of all, Middlesex.
Jonn Elledge Links
A History of the World in 47 Borders
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Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon
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37min

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