War with Margaret MacMillan
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Margaret MacMillan joined me on the podcast to discuss the ways in which war has influenced human society. We discussed how, in turn, changes in political organisation, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History, it's I'm going to darken Echoey Room here |
| 0:05.1 | in historic site which you'll be hearing about more in the near future. But this podcast |
| 0:09.7 | nothing to do with this darken Echoey site that I'm in, this podcast is featuring the brilliant |
| 0:15.6 | Professor Margaret McCommillan, Professor University of Toronto and Oxford University. Also my aunt, |
| 0:21.6 | she's been on the podcast many times before, she's the person that gave me my great passion for |
| 0:25.4 | history. She is one of the world's best historians, won the Samuel Johnson Prize 20 years ago for her |
| 0:33.4 | magisterial book on the Treaty of Versailles and has written many other books since including the |
| 0:39.3 | outbreak of the First World War. You can see programs she's made on history hit TV, you can listen to all |
| 0:43.4 | the back episodes of the podcast on there as well. Don't forget, if you used Code Pod 1, POD 1, you get |
| 0:48.8 | a month of free and your second month for just one pound euro or dollar, you can go and get your |
| 0:54.2 | fill of Margaret McCommillan. But this episode of the podcast, I'm going to have a new book that's |
| 0:58.9 | out. She just recently in the UK presented the BBC Reeth Lectures where they invite one |
| 1:04.1 | intellectual to talk about a subject their choice. She decided to talk about war. It's effect on |
| 1:09.8 | society, how it shaped us, how it's changed. We talked about it on the history hit live podcast |
| 1:15.0 | record if you become a subscriber history. You get to join our weekly live zooms, just some of the |
| 1:19.1 | world's best historians. So thank you to everyone who joined. And now enjoy Margaret McCommillan talking |
| 1:25.5 | about war. Margaret, thank you very much coming on the podcast. Thank you very much for having me, |
| 1:36.0 | very, very good of you. You've written books about military history before, you've written about |
| 1:40.7 | the First World War, the beginning and end of the First World War, you've written about the British |
| 1:43.9 | and India, but this book is huge. This is a book about war itself. It's quite an intimidating subject. |
| 1:50.0 | Where do you start? Well, it's a terrifying subject because it's so enormous and so many people |
| 1:54.6 | often very great historians and novelists and others have written about it. And I was asked to do |
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