14K views · 344 reactions | In his first Reith Lecture, Rutger Bregman takes aim at today’s elites - calling out decadence and decline. In the second, he dives into the abolitionist movement, revealing how cultural shifts made virtue fashionable. Could these lessons spark a new moral revolution? The Reith Lectures | Listen on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

196K views · 7.6K reactions | Throwback to a few highlights from TANKFEST 2023! TANKFEST features three days of arena action, with explosive displays of unique historic & modern armour - see the stars of the Museum’s collection run alongside guest tanks and vehicles. PLUS lectures from tank experts, Living History encampments, & see the world’s best collection of tanks inside The Tank Museum. 27 – 29 June 2025 https://tankmuseum.org/events/tankfest/ | The Tank Museum | Facebook

3K views · 24 reactions | "You can't really understand our world without understanding the part that war has played." Professor Margaret MacMillan is giving the Reith Lectures this year. Her theme is war. https://bbc.in/2PwEfqA | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

"You are not, in fact, squalid. You are not flea-ridden." Hilary Mantel dispels some myths about the 1500s and the notion of the 'dirty past'. | BBC Radio 4

10K views · 152 reactions | "As soon as we die, we enter into fiction." Hilary Mantel on the power of art to bring the dead to life. Listen to the full Reith Lecture  https://bbc.in/31GCj43 | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

53K views · 142 reactions | Ithaca College professor Michael Trotti discusses the escalating tensions between colonists and the British government before the American Revolution in this week's 'Lectures in History.' Watch 'Lectures in History: Colonial Tensions Before The Revolution' on 10/14 at 8pm ET on C-SPAN 2: https://www.c-span.org/video/?530303-1/colonial-tensions-revolution | American History TV | Facebook