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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorne. How have assassinations changed world history? And what can we learn by studying them as a category of political violence? For today's podcast, I spoke to Professor

Michael Burley about his new book, Day of the Assassins, which explores the many facets of political murder and examines some of the key assassinations through history.

From Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln to the mysterious killing of the Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palmer.

In the opening of the book, you say that assassinations haven't really been

the subject of much serious historical study as a category of political violence. Why do you think

that is? Because I think people don't really know quite where to position it and, you know,

it in a way could come under true crime. They don't, they don't sort of thematize it,

as it were, and look at it analytically, which is what I set out to do, you know, to see if I could do

a sort of taxonomy of assassination, put things in different boxes. And I didn't really want to write

a type of encyclopedia of assassination because it would be

multi-volume. I mean, if you look at the Byzantine Empire, you know, I think about 60 out of

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