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History Extra podcast - January 2008

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2008

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ben Barkow talks about the study of the holocaust, Professor Ronald Hutton meets the founder of an obscure religion, David Musgrove takes a guided walk around the new Atlantic Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Offer ends 30 of September 2025. Personal contract purchase, subject status and availability, T's and Zs 18 plus, excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the BBC History Magazine podcast. It's Happy New Year from me, Dave Musgrove, the editor of the magazine. Now, before we kick off, let me just give you a very quick overview of what's in the January issue of the magazine.

0:40.8

It's an empire special. So we've got several features exploring Britain's imperial history. Now, that's in the magazine, but obviously the podcast, we like to do a few different things. First up, we've got Rob who's been talking to an interesting chap called Ben Barko. Rob, what have you been learning?

0:55.9

Well, Ben Barco is director of the Vena Library, which is a kind of Holocaust study resource

1:01.6

centre.

1:02.8

And he's been telling us about the library, but also he's talking about the Holocaust in

1:06.8

general, about his views on the teaching of the Holocaust in schools, about Holocaust denial

1:11.7

and David Irving. And he's also talking about people comparing the Holocaust to other events

1:16.1

in history and where he thinks that's legitimate and where he feels that isn't legitimate

1:20.0

and possibly racist. Sounds very interesting. We'll be listening to that slightly later on.

1:24.5

Now, before we get on to the interviews, let me have a chat with the magazine's

1:28.1

deputy editor, Sue Wingraith, who's in charge of our book reviews section. So, Sue, what's in the

1:32.6

book reviews this month? Hello. Right. Well, our pick of the month this month was Old World

1:37.5

New World by Kathleen Burke. Now, 400 years ago, Jamestown was founded, and that was the first

1:43.0

successful English settlement

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