The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Industrial Revolution
Today’s episode is about a revolution that started 250 years ago and is still going on (in the form of the digital revolution): the Industrial Revolution. David talks to economic historian Alexis Litv...
20 Feb 202553min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 2: 1688
In the second of our episodes with historian Clare Jackson on the English revolutions of the 17th century we discuss the one that usually gets called ‘Glorious’: the revolution of 1688. Was it a revol...
16 Feb 202556min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 1: Civil War
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about the event that is sometimes – but not always – called the English Revolution: the Civil War of the 1640s and the short-lived republic tha...
13 Feb 202556min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Scientific Revolution
Today’s episode is about a revolution that took centuries to happen if it ever really happened at all: The Scientific Revolution. David talks to historian of science Simon Schaffer about what changed ...
9 Feb 20251h 5min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): Luther
Today’s revolutionary thinker is Martin Luther, the man who upended the religious, political and intellectual life of Europe, maybe without entirely meaning to. David talks to historian Alec Ryrie abo...
6 Feb 202556min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Humanism
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about a medieval movement that used the ancient past to rethink and reimagine the present and the future. David talks to historian Eric Nelson ...
2 Feb 202559min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Magna Carta
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about a medieval document that is sometimes thought to contain a ground-breaking promise of basic political rights. David talks to historian Ni...
30 Jan 20251h 6min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas explores the world-altering impact of Islam from the seventh century onwards. David talks to the leading Islamic scholar Tim Winter (Abdal Hakim M...
26 Jan 20251h 2min
