i'm just jumping on about five things that you're saying there. Weve replaced being obsessed with e sort of tudors talking about history a little bit, and study of history. But now we are absolutely obsessed with the british empire, good and bad. I think it's great that people work on whatever topics they want, rather than prescribing it. You can't engage in other parts of the world if you don't have any language skills. And that is the single greatest weak point, you know, f you can't speak any other language rthan english,. i remember spending some time in bulgaria.
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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