The Rest is History - Tänker Killar på romarriket?
Suddenly there was a wave of noise. Thousands of fans cheered as the theme to the duo’s podcast, The Rest is History, started playing. Sandbrook shook his head, thinking: “What on Earth?… This is like a weird parallel universe! This doesn’t happen to historians.”
It has continued to happen, however. Sandbrook and Holland have played venues from New Zealand to New York, Los Angeles and London’s 5,000-seat Albert Hall, where they are accompanied by a full orchestra.
In any major city in the Anglosphere, large crowds will turn out to hear two chummy, middle-aged British men talk about the Visigoths or Admiral Nelson.
TikTok’s year-long interest in the Roman Empire, and how often men claim to think about it, has been the subject of more than 85 million videos.
It is in podcasts, however, that history has the greatest success.
The Rest is History competes with Hardcore History, Revisionist History, The History of Rome, Stuff You Missed in History Class, Tides of History, History Hit and hundreds more to satisfy the public’s seemingly insatiable appetite for amiable discourse about war, monarchy, empire, plague and revolution.
Perhaps it is also a symptom of the fact that we live in interesting times.
Bloomberg 3 January 2025
Tänker Killar på romarriket mer eller mindre varje dag?
Ingen – utom Ida Östenberg, professor i antikens kultur, och en handfull andra specialintresserade – tänker så värst mycket på romarriket.
Lisa Magnuson DN
I Bryssel tänker de på romarriket varje dag. EUs grunddokument är Rom-fördraget, undertecknat i Rom.
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2023/09/lisa-magnusson-och-martin-wolf-om.html
https://therestishistory.supportingcast.fm/
Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 4-5 januari 2025
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/rolfs-lanktips-4-5-januari-2025.html
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