International security & rough sleeping: history behind the headlines

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the latest episode of our monthly series charting the historical background of current news events, regular panellists Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter look back at centuries of challenges to international security – and how previous generations tackled rough sleeping and homelessness. 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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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
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0:21.8	FX is the bear.
0:23.1	New season streaming June 26th exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.3	18 plus subscription required season C's apply.
0:32.3	Hello and welcome to our monthly series History Behind the Headlines.
0:36.3	I'm Matt Elton.
0:38.5	In each episode,
0:42.6	an expert panel will be exploring the historical news stories that have caught their eye and the history that will help you make sense of what's going on in the world. Each month,
0:47.1	I'll be joined by our two regular panelists. I'm Hannah Skoda. I'm fellow and tutor in medieval
0:52.0	history at St. John's College in Oxford. I'm Ron Amitter. I'm
0:56.0	ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School and I'm a specialist on modern
1:02.1	Chinese history. Hanlon Rana, thank you so much for being with us. We are talking in the middle
1:07.7	of June against a backdrop of headlines of an escalating situation in the
1:11.7	Middle East. We're not going to comment today too much about the history of that specific situation,
1:16.2	but it does give us the chance to have a wider think about escalation and about how nations
1:21.5	have historically tried to guarantee their security in a complex and conflict-ridden world.
1:27.4	Rana, did you want to kick off thinking about this?
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