William Dalrymple

Don't miss the final episode of our.@Empirepoduk.bsky.social Norman Conquests series: THE NORMANS IN THE SOUTH linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Jug (Mashraba) with Human-Headed Inscription and Zodiac Signs https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4899

Never forget the Normans were Norse-men. This upsets quite a few people, but yes the ones we know best were Vikings settled in France.

Greens for Palestine In Conversation with Benjamin Moser! A timely and important online discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning author Benjamin Moser as we explore his new book, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. Watch in full here: youtu.be/nfzRdj-ACYM

Was ancient India the world's forgotten superpower? | William Dalrymple | Deja Vu www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0l8...

"The Anarchy" by William Dalrymple is an amazing book about the East India Company, a topic I cared little about until I read this. This needs to be a TV show like yesterday.

Yes! Empire is excellent. Learned so much about the Middle East and the situation at the moment. Great insights & discussion.

William Dalrymple is the best. @empirepoduk.bsky.social has been such an eye opener

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The Normans conquered England, occupied southern Italy, seized Sicily and Antioch from the Arabs, and carved out kingdoms in the Holy Land. They were some of the most astonishing people in medieval history. Final two episodes of our Norman series with @peterfrankopan out now🎙️ linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Arab poets wrote odes to Norman kings. Norman architects built churches with Islamic geometric decoration and Byzantine mosaics. It lasted barely a century and nothing quite like it has existed since. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social on what it produced — and why it ended. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

The Norman Kingdom of Sicily is one of history's great experiments in civilisational encounter. Arabic, Greek and Latin were all official court languages. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

The world map Al-Idrisi produced there in 1154 was the most accurate ever made. A Norman king commissioned the masterpiece of medieval Islamic cartography. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

When the Arab geographer Al-Idrisi needed a patron, he didn't go to Baghdad or Cairo. He went to Palermo — to the court of the Norman King Roger II of Sicily, where Arab scholars, Greek philosophers and Norman knights worked side by side. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

The Normans are usually thought of as a northern European story — England, Normandy, the Channel. Our final two Norman episodes with @peterfrankopan tell a completely different story: how Norman adventurers ended up as the most feared warriors in the Arab and Byzantine worlds linktr.ee/empirepoduk

This was an eye-opening and sometimes hilarious series covering the Frankopan conquest of @empirepoduk.bsky.social along with Normans doing much more than conquering out-of-the-way islands with dismal weather.

@willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social Just listened to the Trotsky episode. I saw some artifacts at the Spy Museum in Washington, DC. I’m in the Empire Club and really enjoy your work.

Real shame when your war of aggression doesn't work out as you hoped. Maybe Trump and Putin can compare notes.

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

Empire: Ireland, India, and the Making of the Modern World | William Dalrymple, Nandini Das and Jane Ohlmeyer in conversation with Christopher Kissane. 51 minutes. youtu.be/SSVyqn6pFMQ?...

'Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.' - Edward Thurlow (1st Baron Thurlow), Lord Chancellor 1778-1783. Quoted in John Poynder, 'Literary Extracts' (1844), and, as an epigraph, in William Dalrymple, 'The Anarchy' (2019).

Just attended the Edinburgh book launch of Under Fire by Humza Yousaf, chaired by the wonderful William Dalrymple. Some of the stories Humza shared of his family and the experiences of those caught up in the conflict were deeply moving. #UnderFire #Gaza #Palestine #Edinburgh #KeepGazaOnTheAgenda

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Gaza and Palestine Through History: Exposing Historical Falsehoods - William Dalrymple, Historian 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

This was a splendid episode, informative & entertaining. The current @empirepoduk.bsky.social mini-series on the Normans - including the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England - has been first-rate. cc @anitaanand.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @marcmorris.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social

UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows

Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?

I was listening to part 3 of this very podcast earlier today. Highly recommended

If you like watching people in their home offices wearing headphones, all three podcasts I recorded about the Norman Conquest with @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social are now free to watch on YouTube. youtu.be/qd6TbRoSLXQ?...

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In 1065 Harold sided with Northumbrian rebels against his own brother Tostig to secure the throne. Tostig never forgave him, and sailed to Norway to find Harald Hardrada, veteran of Kyiv and the Varangian Guard of Constantinople and the last great Viking linktr.ee/empirepoduk

The Godwins rose from nowhere to become richer than the king. Then Harold Godwinson was shipwrecked in Normandy and swore an oath to Duke William on holy relics. The Bayeux Tapestry shows the scene, but what did he actually promise? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

In a Yorkshire valley, a Saxon sundial is dated "in the days of King Edward and in the days of Earl Tostig." Within a few years Tostig's own brother had betrayed him, and the old English world was gone. Episode 2 of The Norman Conquests is out now. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Our @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on The Norman Conquests continues Part 2: ENGLAND IN 1066