William Dalrymple talks with Anita Anand about his latest book and the Indosphere: the extraordinarily wide and long-lasting impact of Indian culture in the rest of the world. #history#skystorianspodcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/1...

179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere

For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, techn

Great series of four podcasts on Oliver Cromwell, narrated by Paul McGann. Terrible things can be done by someone who believes God is on his side (and who has his own Model Army). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Sounds - Real Dictators, Oliver Cromwell Part 1: The Rise of Ironsides

Say “Oliver Cromwell” today and certain things come to mind. What is the real story?

I am actually finding it quite difficult to quit X/ Twitter. There’s something rather hypnotic about the sheer nastiness of it.

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How to quit Twitter. Reasonable in FT this morning

17thC chest in the college archives. Fancy lock and far too heavy to run off with, even empty. #history#Oxford

Thought I’d read a few of Shakespeare’s sonnets every night before bed to counter my insomnia and discovered that he knew all about it. #Poetry#BookSky#insomnia

Ah, the much underestimated power of procrastination as a driver of productivity!

If you want to escape incognito, best not commission a bespoke extra-large carriage painted black and yellow with guards in matching yellow livery. One in a short series of podcasts on the French Revolution (The Rest is History). podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

‎The Rest Is History: The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Rest Is History, Ep The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8) - 8 Aug 2024

Parisian monuments rearranged along the Seine in early 19thC wallpaper.

Enough to put you off having children? Someone’s creepy ancestor at Stonor Park.

Oxford’s Oxtrail has a stab at medieval French. Read to the fifth line…