The History of Revolutionary Ideas: 1848: The Liberal Revolution w/Chris Clark
In the first of three episodes about the revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848 David is joined by historian Chris Clark to explore the ideas behind this continental upheaval. We start with the...
20 Mar 202555min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Bayesian Revolution w/David Spiegelhalter
Today’s revolutionary idea is something a bit different: David talks to statistician David Spiegelhalter about how an eighteenth-century theory of probability emerged from relative obscurity in the tw...
16 Mar 20251h
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Slave Uprising: The Haitian Revolution
Today’s episode is about a very different revolution from any we’ve discussed so far: David talks to historian Hank Gonzalez about the Haitian Revolution, which for the first time in history saw a sla...
13 Mar 202557min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 3: Paine
For our third episode on the ideas behind the French Revolution, David talks to Richard Whatmore about the ubiquitous Thomas Paine, the Englishman who championed revolutionary politics around the worl...
9 Mar 202558min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 2: Robespierre
For our second episode on the people and ideas behind the French Revolution David talks to historian and biographer Ruth Scurr about the man who came to embody the revolution in all its radicalism and...
6 Mar 202553min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 1: Sieyès
In the first of three episodes about the people and ideas behind the French Revolution, David talks to Lucia Rubinelli about the man who helped kickstart it all: the Abbé Sieyès. How did an obscure cl...
2 Mar 202557min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: American Revolution 2: The Constitution
In the second of our two episodes about the American Revolution David talks to historian Eric Nelson about the ideas that shaped the US Constitution. Was the office of President a victory for the peop...
27 Feb 20251h 3min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: American Revolution 1: The Declaration of Independence
Today it’s the first of two episodes about one of the most significant revolutions of all: the American Revolution. David talks to historian Eric Nelson about the ideas behind America’s Declaration of...
23 Feb 20251h
