Decoding the Voynich Manuscript
November 8, 2017
In this popular episode of the podcast, we try to unlock the secrets of the Voynich Manuscript with Raymond Clemens from the Beinecke Library and Joseph Calamia, senior editor at… READ MORE
Category: History
The London Cage
October 30, 2017
Helen Fry— Writing the history of spies, espionage and the intelligence services, especially MI6 or the CIA, poses its own particular challenges. Secret intelligence organisations are shrouded in myth and… READ MORE
Extremists Form Fellowships of Friends
October 29, 2017
Philippe-Joseph Salazar— One year ago an off-beat play about terrorism by Nobel-prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek premièred in Darmstadt, Germany, Wut (Rage) – at a time the country was straining both under… READ MORE
The Exterminating Angel and the Entrapment of Guests
October 28, 2017
James A. W. Heffernan— Fifteen months ago, the Salzburg Festival first staged an opera that has just opened at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating… READ MORE
Leon Trotsky, a Hundred Years After the Russian Revolution
October 27, 2017
Joshua Rubenstein— The romantic figure of Leon Trotsky, a man who helped lead the Bolsheviks to power a hundred years ago and then came to embody defiance of Joseph Stalin,… READ MORE
Ep. 8 – A History of Things That Go Bump in the Night
October 26, 2017
On this special Halloween edition of the podcast, cultural historian Leo Braudy, author of Haunted, sat down with us to talk about the history of monsters and other scary creatures. Spooky!… READ MORE
Æthelred, the Unready?
October 23, 2017
Levi Roach— Æthelred initially identified himself and his counsellors as the guilty parties and set about remedying his ways, restoring church lands, promoting new figures, fostering reform and making amends…. READ MORE
Caged lies and Truth drugs
October 20, 2017
Helen Fry— The allegations of brutality at the London Cage are shocking enough, but evidence emerges to reveal for the first time in this book that Colonel Scotland apparently sanctioned… READ MORE
Taming the US Shadow Banks
October 18, 2017
Tamim Bayoumi— US financial reformers faced a fundamentally different issue from those in Europe. Banks in Europe were under a flawed single system. The issues in the United States, on… READ MORE
Strangers of Familiar Soil
October 17, 2017
Edward Dallam Melillo— On October 31, 1967, California governor Ronald Reagan addressed seventy-three diplomats, businesspeople, and academics who had assembled in Sacramento for the fourth annual Chile-California Conference. As the… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic