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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 21h

Of the 22 Marshals still alive during the Battle of Waterloo, only two were in combat. Andrew Roberts details Napoleon’s military downfall. 🎧The EI Podcast: Napoleon’s nest of vipers engelsbergideas.com/podcast/napo...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Russia, which in 1954 under Soviet rule mastered the ‘peaceful atom’, has weaponised Ukraine’s nuclear power as a tool of war. Paul Josephson explains. 🎧The EI Podcast: Russia’s war on Ukrainian science engelsbergideas.com/podcast/russ...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Paul Josephson traces the historical roots of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive Russification policies. 🎧The EI Podcast: Russia’s war on Ukrainian science engelsbergideas.com/podcast/russ...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Not that long ago, history really was an important part of the way we argued and thought about who we were politically.’ Emily Jones on Britain’s presentist political culture. 🎧The EI Podcast: Reinventing Disraeli engelsbergideas.com/podcast/rein...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Simon Sebag Montefiore on how the states of the modern Middle East came to be. 🎧The EI Podcast: The scramble for the Middle East engelsbergideas.com/podcast/the-...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Who ruled the Middle East in 1900? Simon Sebag Montefiore narrates the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Saudi Arabia. 🎧The EI Podcast: The scramble for the Middle East audioboom.com/posts/895095...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How did Allen Lane change the world’s reading habits? Philip Hensher details the triumph of Penguin paperbacks. 🎧The EI Podcast – The novel in Britain: from cover to cover audioboom.com/posts/894840....

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hannah Lucinda Smith on Vladimir Putin’s influence in the Balkans. 🎧The EI Podcast: Journeys in Europe’s grey zone audioboom.com/posts/894508...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Philip Hensher on The Guardian’s list of the 100 greatest novels. 🎧The EI Podcast – The novel in Britain: from cover to cover audioboom.com/posts/894840...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‘This was not just a civil war. This was a proxy war.’ Hannah Lucinda Smith explains how many of Europe’s most severe crises have their roots in the Syrian Civil War. 🎧The EI Podcast: Journeys in Europe’s grey zone audioboom.com/posts/894508...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How did Machiavelli’s republicanism accommodate religion? Stephen Bowd explains. 🎧The EI Podcast: Machiavelli still matters audioboom.com/posts/894356...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Stephen Bowd on Niccolò Machiavelli’s preoccupation with human conflict. 🎧The EI Podcast: Machiavelli still matters audioboom.com/posts/894356...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

David Thomson recalls his first time seeing ‘Citizen Kane’. 🎧The EI Podcast: The entire history of cinema in one shot audioboom.com/posts/893928...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

David Thomson has issues with ‘The Odyssey’. 🎧The EI Podcast: The entire history of cinema in one shot audioboom.com/posts/893928...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Michael Auslin explains why the Declaration of Independence was vital to the propaganda wars of the American Revolution. 🎧The EI Podcast – America’s universal document: a curious history audioboom.com/posts/893641...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Michael Auslin on the global impact of the Declaration of Independence. 🎧The EI Podcast – America’s universal document: a curious history audioboom.com/posts/893641...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Orlando Gibbs on why Hollywood should now adapt Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Orlando Gibbs on the significance of the meeting between Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's Underworld, the death knell of the Iliadic dream. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is not the trickster of the Homeric poems. Orlando Gibbs explains why. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Kathleen Burk on how the Dutch were the driving force behind the cultivation of wine in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. 🎧The EI Podcast: How wine made the modern world audioboom.com/posts/893154...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Peter Ricketts on Sir Alexander Cadogan, Churchill’s most trusted foreign policy adviser and architect of the Atlantic Charter. 🎧The EI Podcast: The diplomats who defeated Hitler audioboom.com/posts/892883...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Can the UN survive in a world of great power rivalry? Peter Ricketts suggests there is no going back to the old rules-based international order. 🎧 The EI Podcast: The diplomats who defeated Hitler audioboom.com/posts/892883...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Historian Brendan Simms on the future of American foreign policy. 🎧 The EI Podcast: The return of the Great Powers audioboom.com/posts/892584...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Is Russia – despite its troubles in Ukraine and subordination to China – still a Great Power? Brendan Simms suggests that it is. 🎧The EI Podcast: The return of the Great Powers audioboom.com/posts/892584...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🎧The EI Podcast: 250 years of the American experiment @philtinline.bsky.social on how the concept of ‘the frontier’ has shaped the country’s political culture. audioboom.com/posts/892352...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Is the era of mass literacy over? And what might a post-literate society look like? 🗣️ @alastairbenn.bsky.social is joined by James Marriott and @paullay.bsky.social to discuss literacy and its uses. 🎙️The dawn of the post-literate society | EI Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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