Thanks for listening to the Rest is History. For bonus episodes, early access, add free

listening and access to our chat community, please sign up at restishistripod.com.

Or if you're listening on the Apple Podcasts app, you can subscribe within the app in just

a few clicks.

This is a paid advertisement from BetterHelp. That's on. We have all heard about the

January blues. That feeling you get is the excitement of Christmas and the fun of the

new year begins to dissipate and real life comes flooding back.

Yeah, when you're at your best, you can of course do brilliant things, but you can't

be at the top of your game all the time. And working with a therapist can get you closer

to the best version of you. Because when you feel empowered, you're more prepared to

take on everything that life throws at you.

You see BetterHelp is therapy online via video, phone or message chats. So you don't

have to see anyone on camera if you don't want to. It helps make therapy accessible.

With over a thousand therapists in the UK already, BetterHelp can provide access to licensed

professionals with a wide variety of expertise in mental health.

Now the great news is that our listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com

slash rest history. That is BetterHELP.com slash rest history. Good luck.

History never repeats itself, but it rhymes, said Mark Twain. In which case, can we truly

learn from history? And if we can, do we? Here on the rest is history. We like to focus

on very close on Bronze Age Anatolia or the summer of 1981, but we also like to focus

on the truly big questions. And for big questions, we need a big historian with a big brain.

Don't want to expand, Brooke. Good to have you back.

...