🎧 The Empire Windrush with Alex von Tunzelmann
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 16m
The crisis in the Home Office about the treatment of citizens who arrived on the Windrush and their families has consumed British politics for months. Dan talks to Alex Von Tunzelmann about empires, immigration, and how the current situation arose.
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🎧 What the Romans Did for Us
Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources, not least roads, walls and bridges.
Why have they survived so well? And what did the people who lived here immediately after the Romans think of them and do with them?In this episode of Go...
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🎧 The Expulsion of Native Americans
Claudio Saunt joined me on the podcast to discuss the United States' expulsion of Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington’s small but growing bure...
