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[Darth Wagtaros]

I like If Books Could Kill. About airport books and how they are stupid.  

[Sheilbh]

Generally think Misha Glenny has done a really good job taking over from Lord Bragg on In Our Time (although I slightly preferred Melvyn's "anything we missed?" approach to the podcast extra time).

Really enjoyed the recent episode on the Levellers and recently read a social history of seventeenth century England - and I know it wasn't their line and is from a more contested Marxist tradition - but I am coming round to the idea that there was an English Revolution in the midst of (and provoked by) the wider War of the Three Kingdoms. Some interesting overlaps with the French Revolution I'd not really been aware of before, particularly around the role of and importance of spaces in London (fee like there's a book in it).

But also I had no idea how fortuitous it was that records of the Putney debate exist and how they were only discovered about 100-120 years ago given how important they now are to the narrative of that period. Also had no idea that those wars killed more people from these isles as a share of the population than WW1 and WW2 combined. I said it before but I think the 17th century should probably be a bigger thing in (at least) the English historic imagination than it is.

[mongers]

Generally think Misha Glenny has done a really good job taking over from Lord Bragg on In Our Time (although I slightly preferred Melvyn's "anything we missed?" approach to the podcast extra time).

Really enjoyed the recent episode on the Levellers and recently read a social history of seventeenth century England - and I know it wasn't their line and is from a more contested Marxist tradition - but I am coming round to the idea that there was an English Revolution in the midst of (and provoked by) the wider War of the Three Kingdoms. Some interesting overlaps with the French Revolution I'd not really been aware of before, particularly around the role of and importance of spaces in London (fee like there's a book in it).

But also I had no idea how fortuitous it was that records of the Putney debate exist and how they were only discovered about 100-120 years ago given how important they now are to the narrative of that period. Also had no idea that those wars killed more people from these isles as a share of the population than WW1 and WW2 combined. I said it before but I think the 17th century should probably be a bigger thing in (at least) the English historic imagination than it is.

Looking at the episode list, I haven't heard one yet as I've a huge backlog. But thanks for the reminder and will now give 'The Code of Hammurabi' a go.