Hello everyone, Patrick here.

You know the fall of Rome is a subject that I've dedicated the better part of the last decade,

my PhD, and this podcast too.

It's a time that's always fascinated me, because it reminds me that no matter how stable

and permanent everything seems, nothing lasts forever.

People living in 425 assume the Roman Empire would last forever.

You right now probably assume that America, Canada, the UK, wherever you are, will still

be there long after you're gone.

But the Roman Empire was gone just 50 years later, less than a lifetime, even if it took

them a lot longer to come to terms with it.

I've always loved looking into those big changes, huge monumental shifts that alter the entire

foundation of the world.

And that's going to be the subject of my new show from Wondry, Tides of History.

Everything you've loved about fall of Rome will be in there, don't worry, and I'm certainly

not finished talking about Rome, but I want to look at something a little closer to

home too, the rise of the modern world.

I believe that we can trace the roots of our modern world, the world that we move through

each and every day to the 300 years between 1350 and 1650, roughly the black death to the

30 years war in the English Civil War.

Like fall of Rome, Tides of History will try to understand things from the perspective

of ordinary people and how they experience their world, just like you do.

On top of all that, I'm going to talk to the experts to historians who have spent their

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