The Conquest of Constantinople

Highlights from Talking History

Aug 22, 202600:52:27Society & Culture

In this episode, a history books roundup: ‘Desk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795–9’, with Prof Biancamaria Fontana, emeritus professor of the history of political ideas at the University of Lausanne...

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