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History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In the latest episode of our monthly series charting the past behind the present, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter chronicle the history of student protests, explore the story of a remarkable medieval astrolabe and discuss some new discoveries about Jane Austen. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.2

Headlines. In each episode, our expert panel will be exploring

0:38.3

the historical news stories that have caught their eye and the history that will help you make sense

0:42.5

of what's going on in the world. Each month, I'm joined by our two regular panelists.

0:46.2

An Escoda, I'm a tutor in late medieval history at St John's College in Oxford.

0:50.7

And I'm Rahn Amitter. I'm the ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard

0:55.4

Kennedy School and I work on modern China. Coming up, we're going to be exploring a discovery

0:59.6

of some remarkable medieval technology. But first, recent weeks have seen student protests take

1:05.1

place in the United States and the United Kingdom about the Israel-Gaza War, with some

1:09.8

commentators and activists drawing

1:11.3

parallels to protests that took place in previous decades. Without going into any of the present-day

1:15.9

politics, which historical episodes do you think are revealing in this regard? And do you think

1:20.5

such parallels are helpful? Hannah, do you want to start us off?

1:23.6

Yes, so I'm sitting in my office at St John's right now, and there's a big student protest,

1:31.4

which has just been set up outside the University Museum here with the students for Palestine

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