8. The Echo of a Coffee House
The Rest Is History
Goalhanger
4.6 • 18.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Social media has colonised the world but is it really a new phenomenon? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook debate the effects of technical innovations from the printing press to Twitter. Do they really make a difference?
Or was Swift right when he said: “It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
A Goalhanger Films & Left Peg Media production
Produced by Jack Davenport
Exec Producer Tony Pastor
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| 1:46.5 | Welcome to the Resters History. What should that be? Hashtag the Resters History. Social |
| 1:52.4 | media has colonized the world in a way that Romans could only have dreamed of? Does it |
| 1:56.7 | matter? Does it really shape the world? And is it a new phenomenon? Well, I'm with Tom |
| 2:02.0 | Holland, who's taking a break from his busy schedule of tweeting his latest thoughts |
| 2:06.0 | about the desecration of Stonehenge. Social media activism is not as best, Aetom. |
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