George Goodwin is a Historian and author, his latest book Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father is out now.
Tony Blair, Julie McDowall the 'Atomic Hobo', Prof Mary Fulbrook, SAS veterans, Stephen Fry, Akala.... It has been a bumper year on the pod. We've heard why the British Army was doomed to failure in Helmand, what it was like arriving at Bletchley Park in the darkest days of the Second World War, ...
Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin joined me on the podcast to talk about the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of complexity science and cultural evolution to study the dynamics of historical empires and modern nation-states.
The problems the world faces now are ones the whole human race will have to resolve, so David Christian has decided to tell the history of the entire human race from the Big Bang to the present.
