Written Constitutions with Linda Colley

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On the podcast today we have the legendary Linda Colley to talk all about her new book examining the phenomenon of written constitutions. From Corsica in 1755 onwards via the United States and into the modern world constitutions represent an attempt by people to write down and codify the laws that govern a state. We discuss how these important documents are, and continue to be, a powerful symbol of statehood; how they represent the cultures and literature of the time and how their increasing importance from the eighteenth century onwards is intimately connected with the gigantic new forms of warfare that arise in the period.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Yet.
0:03.5	Now a long time ago I read a book called Britain's,
0:07.0	it was by a historian called Linda Colley,
0:09.0	and it was one of the great books
0:12.0	that helped cement the 18th century
0:13.8	as my favorite bit of history to study.
0:16.5	And it helped me make sense of that century,
0:18.0	about British identity, and about Britain's relationship,
0:22.6	both within Britain Island and with the rest of the world.
0:26.2	Fantastic book.
0:27.5	Linda Colley is still one of the most distinguished
0:29.2	origins in the world.
0:30.2	She is Professor of History at Princeton University,
0:35.2	and it was great to finally have on the pockets.
0:36.9	My first time I finally summed up the character
0:39.2	asked Linda Colley to come on the podcast
0:40.8	after five years of doing it.
0:42.4	I wasn't ready until now, but it was worth the wait.
0:46.1	And particularly because she has just published
0:48.4	her new book, it's all about written constitutions.
0:51.4	And she's done that very rare thing.
0:52.7	She sort of created a new fill of history
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