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How pandemic and climate change brought down the Roman Empire
Pandemics brought down the greatest human empire of all time - who knew? Kyle Harper is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire, which examines the collapse of the… Audio
The Travels of Charles Burney
Peter Hoar looks at the writings of 18th-Century music historian, Charles Burney. Audio
Historian and author Jock Phillips
Jock Phillips is the architect and passion behind Te Ara, the online encyclopedia of New Zealand. The last segment of Te Ara, themed 'Creative and Intellectual Life' , has just been launched featuring… Audio
Historian Jock Phillips
Jock Phillips is one of those rare breed of historians with an ability to fuse an academic approach with a more populist take on culture and history. His books have offered an insight into who we are… Audio
Ideas for 26 June 2011: Professor James Belich
Professor James Belich was known for his revisionist histories of the New Zealand wars and his two-volume history of New Zealand. But his 2011 work, Replenishing the Earth, took on a much larger… Audio
Ideas for 13 June 2010: Tony Simpson
Historian Tony Simpson is the author of 14 books including probably his best known work The Sugarbag Years - a collection of oral histories documenting the depression. A former trade unionist and… Audio