William Dalrymple

Tour de Force by Stephen Fry chatting relaxed with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple about Homer and the Greeks

Jake Scott, MD o @jakescottMD "Iranians who think they're going to live." That's not a military objective. That's genocidal language - a direct threat to kill indiscriminately. Secretary Hegseth is unhinged and needs to be stopped. William Dalrymple 0 @DalrympleWill Sounds less like the language of liberation of a people and more like a

i really don’t like these testy brawling locker room guys in charge of military forces.

How Civilisation Came Back From Collapse (ft. Eric Cline) YouTube video by Empire • World History

Maybe not good short term. As you say, Eric Cline (@digkabri.bsky.social) says in new book, and this podcast with @willdalrymple.bsky.social, some nations became successful by exploiting the opportunities that arose.

What are ours? Renewables? Deeper treaties?

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You should really give @empirepoduk.bsky.social a listen, the episodes on partition and the events and people involved are fantastic. @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social do a great job of guiding those of us who didn't know anything but the most basic history beforehand.

Donald Trump is losing the Iran war 👇

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Chairman Mao: China's Communist Uprising Podcast Episode · Empire: World History · 5 March · 49m

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In this episode @empirepoduk.bsky.social @anita & I are joined once again by Rana Mitter, Professor of Modern Chinese History at Harvard and author of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World, to discuss the Chinese Civil War and the Long March.
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Why did 80,000 communists walk across the country in the “Long March”, and how is this retreat reframed in Chinese political memory today? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Why did the Communists and Nationalists join forces with the USSR during the Chinese Civil War? When did the nationalists purge communists in what is known as the “White Terror”?
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Do you think of him as a model democrat?

Our @EmpirePodUK Chairman Mao biopod continues:
Episode Two: The Long March
With the brilliant Rana Mitter, Professor of Modern Chinese History at Harvard and author of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World

One side of Rodney's Stone, a Class II Pictish carved stone located near Brodie Castle in Moray. At the top are two coiling S-shaped creatures with staring eyes, sharp teeth and lolling tongues; circular curled and dotted objects float between them. Below these two monsters is what is known as a "Pictish Beast", a strange, aquatic-looking creature with flipper-like limbs and a long snout; its body is decorated with knotwork carving, and a whip-like crest curls from the top of its head back down along its spine. At the base of the image is a highly ornamented Pictish double-disc crossed with a z-rod.

“The iconography on the stones… is one of the few sources that modern scholars can work with to learn about the Picts & their world – & it also turns out to be a great source of inspiration for science fiction TV”

—Dr @janetekay.bsky.social on Picts & #DoctorWho
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What's Left of the Picts? Scotland's Pictish Stones - Historic Environment Scotland Blog Pictish stones can be found all over Scotland, but what are they, who carved them, and why? We take a look at some of the research.

Scotland’s Pictish carved stones, dating from the first millennium CE, display a number of symbols of unknown meaning. Some symbols show animals, some are abstract/geometric, but the same designs can be found from Shetland to the Borders
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⭐China's Civil War
⭐China in WW2
⭐The Great Leap Forward
⭐The Cultural Revolution

In this episode @anitaanand.bsky.social & I are joined by the brilliant Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World, Modern China: A Short Introduction and Forgotten Ally, China’s World War II, to discuss the origin story of Mao Zedong.
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A child born in a rural village, Mao hated the Confucian traditions he grew up with. He read profusely and rebelled against his father. But how did his early life shape him into the dictator he would become?
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A revolutionary hero or a brutal despot? Mao Zedong has one of the most recognisable portraits on Earth. How did he rise to become the founder of the People’s Republic of China?
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New from @EmpirePodUK

CHAIRMAN MAO: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR

@anitaanand.bsky.social & I are joined by the wonderful Professor Rana Mitter for a six episodes deep dive into Mao's life.

Donald Trump’s dangerous ‘war of whim’ [FREE TO READ] Anyone who claims to know where this conflict will go is bluffing

"Trump has seen George W. Bush’s record and raised it. There's nothing good to say about Iran’s regime. But it has shown a better instinct for reading Trump’s intentions than his voters." My column on Trump's reckless gamble. as.ft.com/r/66e49702-f...

Ha!

Thank you!

It is!

That's the most flattering comparison you could possibly make in my book!

Jibāl as-Sarawāt

Qalat Abu Sarrah

Amazing photos of a rarely seen part of the World.

Rijal Almaa

Jabalpur Soudah