Tulip Fever - Amsterdam 1637; the first financial crash?
We Are History
Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:47.4 | Hello and welcome to We Are History Podcast. I'm Angela Vance. |
| 0:51.9 | And I'm John O'Farrell. What are we talking about today, Angela? |
| 0:55.5 | Oh, today, John, I have got Max Bygraves singing in my head as we are talking about tulips. |
| 1:02.7 | From Amsterdam. Not specifically from Amsterdam, but from all across the Dutch Republic of the 17th century. |
| 1:08.1 | When it's spring again, I'll sing again. That's a real pub singer's |
| 1:12.1 | song. It might be with my nan that song. It really does. She had the Max Bygraves album. I played it |
| 1:17.0 | to Matt the other day. I wasn't impressed. Is that song about the tulip fever, the first capitalist |
| 1:22.0 | crisis of the Dutch golden age? No, but it could be, possibly. |
| 1:30.6 | I, for this, read the worst history book I've ever read. |
| 1:35.2 | We like to advertise the books we read on this podcast, but there's one that you are like, |
| 1:37.1 | because you were leading on this. I thought, you're reading that the big, fat, proper history book. |
| 1:40.9 | And I saw a book on Amazon, sorry, sorry, sorry book shops, you're all closed at the moment. |
| 1:48.2 | I saw a book and it's like 90 pages on tulip fever that's great because Angela do most of the detail but it's like this self-published print large print thing with no page |
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