As a boy, one of the few programmes that we always ad to watch home was john craven's news round. And i just remember sitting ameng i loved history, and i love those stories abouta henry the eighth and the first secel war. But i caun never quite understand why what i was learng in the class room had aeno lation to what seemed to be important than news and important in the world. I didn't imagine it would come together. That maybe we should write about history that is explains how we're connected. Was the sand track? Im gansed, that's not what i'm up it's a realy good question. So
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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