👇🏽 I totally agree.

Just listened to this during a 7 hour trip! It’s a great set of episodes, 10/10 would do it again!

Mao

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In this episode, @anitaanand.bsky.social & I are joined once again by Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World, to discuss The Great Leap Forward and its consequences for China and its relationship with the Soviet Union linktr.ee/empirepoduk

How did Mao destroy the pillars of traditional culture and violently purge “class enemies”? How far was Uncle Joe his model and how far his rival? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Mao has declared that China is a communist republic. How did life change for ordinary people living in this new nation? To what extent was Mao’s China modelled on the USSR, and how did Mao and Stalin feel about each other? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social UNCLE JOE & UNCLE MAO Our Mao biopod continues with the fabulous Rana Mitter

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social UNCLE JOE & UNCLE MAO Our Mao biopod continues with the fabulous Rana Mitter

So somebody on Bluesky recommended the Empire podcast with @anitaanand.bsky.social and...[pause] @willdalrymple.bsky.social. I am obsessed. You will never see me again without my earbuds. The hosts are bloody brilliant and have written books, plus every guest is podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This conversation between @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @anitaanand.bsky.social, and Daniel Immerwahr is excellent:

interesting

For those willing to protest the vile claim by Golda Meir that,"There's no such thing as Palestinians" read this from @willdalrymple.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... "Palestine is one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself.

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

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

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? www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zO...

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 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/why-trump-...

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

“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 ima.princeton.edu/2017/07/31/p...

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 #WyrdWednesday blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/08/what...

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.

"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...

Amazing photos of a rarely seen part of the World.

Currently on a spectacularly ill-timed trip to the Saudi-Yemeni borderlands...

The two-part episode of @empirepoduk.bsky.social by @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social on the parallels/differences between the Iranian revolutions of 1979 and 2026 is very, very good: pdst.fm/e/traffic.me...

Interesting Bronze Age Collapse podcast series from @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social They talk to lots of different experts, including @digkabri.bsky.social and @stephenfry.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/@EmpirePodUK @empirepoduk.bsky.social

Und noch eine: Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Cambridge) über facts & fiction und das literarische Erbe von Homer. Herausragende Folge einer ganz starken Serie zum Ende der Bronzezeit. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e...

This has been a really interesting series. I didn't know much at all about the Bronze Age or its collapse. I got a peek with some Mycenaean things on a Greece trip last year, and that piqued my interest.

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social Bronze Age Apocalypse: How To Survive The End of The World With Eric Cline @digkabri.bsky.social linktr.ee/empirepoduk

I haven't listened to these two episodes of "Empire" yet, but this is such a great podcast

Needless to say I was completely hooked listening to this 8-part series on the Indian Uprising of 1857 ('Mutiny' would sound like something on a much smaller scale) from @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social. Still my favourite podcast. podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/3...

🏆 Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard (@niemanfoundation.bsky.social) have announced the 2026 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, honoring outstanding works of American nonfiction in progress and in print.

Reading @willdalrymple.bsky.social Anarchy about the East Indian Company and trumps “board of peace” is exactly what this is, a replica of that horror show. A few men in the City of London, raping and pillaging India. Peace Board a few men raping and pillaging the world. It must be stopped.

The Song of the Banyan Tree @jasonsinghthing, the Mozart (or maybe Brian Eno) of Biosonfication, attaches electrodes to our banyan tree to record its biofeedback and turn into a soundtrack for Tishani Doshi to dance to @oliviafraserart's British Council show, A Journey Within, opening Thursday

"Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former peace negotiator, called building a military base on Palestinian land [in Gaza] without the government’s approval an act of occupation. 'Whose permission did they get to build that military base?'"

Very proud to be on the Mark Lynton History Prize Shortlist (though pity the historian shortlisted alongside Sven Beckert) journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-s...

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From the scientific evidence hidden in ancient pollen to the first historical mention of Israelites and the rise of the Peleset/ Philistines/Palestinians,this episode uncovers how a global systemic collapse redrew the map of the ancient world. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Was the Bronze Age Collapse caused by a single catastrophic event? How did the Egyptians try to adapt to the changing climate? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

New from @EmpirePodUK Bronze Age Apocalypse: Solving The Mystery of The Collapse With the great Professor Eric H. Cline Author of the international bestseller, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

A Bronze Age Collapse episode from my very favorite podcast with local DC archaeologist and master of the subject @digkabri.bsky.social !!! Hoping Anita comments on the eclectic Sea Peoples fashion. (Those hats?!)

New from @EmpirePodUK Bronze Age Apocalypse: Solving The Mystery of The Collapse With the great Professor Eric H. Cline Author of the international bestseller, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

The brilliant Rohit Chawla turning a sow's ear into a silk purse...

Our new @empirepoduk.bsky.social episode is all about how the ancient epics were orally transmitted. Here is my @NewYorker article on the living Homers of Rajathan who, amazingly, still preseve the great epics of Rajasthan, Papuji & Gogaji Homer in India | The New Yorker share.google/RiBKptwjYnoz...

Very proud to be on the Mark Lynton History Prize Shortlist (though pity the historian shortlisted alongside Sven Beckert) journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-s...

Just finished the entire series this afternoon, another tour de force that has caused me to buy yet more excellent sounding books! What a fascinating topic! Also very pleased to note your next foray into 20th century China coming next with Mao! Bloody marvellous! Hope Anita gets well soon!

Our new @empirepoduk.bsky.social episode is all about how the ancient epics were orally transmitted. Here is my @NewYorker article on the living Homers of Rajathan who, amazingly, still preseve the great epics of Rajasthan, Papuji & Gogaji Homer in India | The New Yorker share.google/RiBKptwjYnoz...

Thank goodness for William Dalrymple 🙏🏼 @willdalrymple.bsky.social

Pretty cool to listen to a podcast from 2022 and hear @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s dad, Mahmood Mamdani discussing history! @willdalrymple.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...