Captain Cook 250 Years On

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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250 years ago today Captain James arrived back from one of the most remarkable voyages of exploration in the history of the world. The expedition took Cook and his crew through the Pacific making contact with the numerous island communities of that ocean and perhaps most famously being the first Europeans to make landfall on Australia. Whilst undoubtedly an act of skilful seamanship, this expedition would begin a process of colonisation that would have devastating consequences for indigenous communities and cultures throughout the Pacific region. In this episode, Dan is joined by the writer, historian and podcaster Peter Moore who has recently published his new book Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World. This makes him the perfect person to explain the purpose of the expedition, its successes and failures and to give us an insight into what was going on aboard HMS Endeavour.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History. It's Monday morning. It's the Monday after
0:05.3	the night before England played in the final of the European Cup last night. The first
0:09.8	time that has ever taken place in history. I hope you enjoyed listening to our previous
0:15.0	of the final, the Italy, England history. Lots of comments on that. Thank you very much.
0:19.9	Pity me this morning as you go into work. No doubt feeling a bit worse for where? I am
0:25.0	up at the crack of dawn on HMS Bellfast filming another program for history at TV. If you haven't
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0:40.0	hundreds of documentaries more coming out of the timing to do one that I make at the moment
0:44.0	on second one more naval history which I'll fill you in a bit more about when the time comes.
0:48.0	But just this week we've got Budica and Revolta against Rome and we have got the program
0:53.3	and we've got Cat German on the pursuit of the great Heathen Army, the great Army of Dane
0:57.7	is crossing England. All very resonant in fact. Perfect stuff for the current sporting climate.
1:04.4	But today's an anniversary day. In fact it's a big one folks. 250 years ago today,
1:10.0	250 years ago today on the 12th of July 1771. Cook, captain James Cook arrived back from his
1:18.4	first voyage landing at Deal in Kent. He made his way to London to talk to the lords of the
1:24.5	Admiralty about what was the most remarkable voyage of exploration in the history of the world.
1:32.0	It forged links between the Pacific and Australasia that would of course in
1:36.5	Jule with catastrophic consequences from indigenous people and cultures in those islands and it
1:42.0	would begin a process by which those islands, those places would be transformed first into
1:47.2	European and American colonies, Dominions and independent states. Profoundly important
1:54.4	voyage of exploration. What was he doing? Why was he doing it? And what was going on the HMS
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