A Short History of The World
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How can you condense the history of the world into a book? Well-celebrated historian Simon Sebag Montefiore does just that in his new epic. He takes Dan on an exhilarating journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, and Bonapartes and Habsburgs to name a few. His new book 'The World' captures the story of humankind in all its joy, sorrow, romance, ingenuity and cruelty.
Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History, one of my successful episodes ever this podcast |
| 0:04.9 | featured Simon Seabag Montafiro telling me the whole history of Jerusalem. The settlement of that |
| 0:10.7 | city stretching far back into prehistory all the way up to its controversial present. Well now |
| 0:18.3 | Simon Seabag Montafiro, no doubt based on the success of that episode of the podcast has gone |
| 0:22.4 | one step further. From Jerusalem to the world, he sat down, in lockdown, here in the UK, |
| 0:29.4 | started day one of lockdown and wrote a history of the world. A gigantic tome so heavy that I |
| 0:37.5 | had to give chocolates and nice bunch of flowers to my brilliant postal delivery person when he |
| 0:44.4 | staggered to the front door holding it. Simon Seabag Montafiro joins me on this podcast to talk |
| 0:49.5 | about history of the world, which bits of world history matters at the bits we think and who matters |
| 0:55.0 | within that history. It's a big one. Enjoy. Simon, welcome back on the podcast. Always great to |
| 1:19.5 | be here. Love it to see you, Dan. You've been a busy man. I remember I came to your house to do a |
| 1:24.9 | letter from history and then you were telling me you took me into your holiest of holies. You said |
| 1:29.8 | I can't tell anyone about this but look what I'm doing and I open the door and they're on the floor |
| 1:34.0 | were what, 300 books in neat piles. You're not that neat. I think we can see some of them in the back |
| 1:40.1 | there. I don't know what you're writing the background but it's so nice to be able to talk about it |
| 1:44.5 | finally. I spent my lockdown doing lots of hoovering, childcare and drinking ale, pale ale after a |
| 1:50.9 | can while doing up those two things. You spent your lockdown writing a gigantic history of the world. |
| 1:56.4 | I mean that is just epic. Well I'm impressed you're a power gun and holds some family life. |
| 2:01.0 | That's a much higher standard for all of us to follow. Did you only write a history of the world |
| 2:05.5 | because of lock? Was it like what I'm locked down? I got to do this. Or was this always in the works? |
| 2:09.2 | I've always been thinking about doing it because I think the big challenge in history is you know |
| 2:13.6 | this very well is that world history is wonderful. It has great trends and it spans the world and |
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