Britain has significantly out performed, and at the expense of other people's lives. But we've got to try and work out why that is, and an what our places are in a changing world. And i thinkh if you don't teach those kind of skills and the technical skills, history to day are not just languages. It's about understanding statistical modeling, a lot of science,. A lot of genomic data for example. How did it evolve? What bits aren't there? How did it get there? Bagascoo: "The big problem in this country is we've got huge investment needs"
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Roads. He speaks to fellow historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore at the Cliveden Literary Festival about how we may be currently witnessing the end of a historical era amid the emergence of a brand new one.
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