# Peter Frankopan
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peter frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian, writer and hotelier.
== Early life and education ==
Frankopan is the second of five children born to Yugoslavia-born Croatian Louis Doimi de Frankopan (1939–2018) and Swedish-born barrister and professor of international law Ingrid Detter. His elder sister is Lady Nicholas Windsor.He attended Eton College and then received a degree in Byzantine history from Jesus College, Cambridge, before getting his D.Phil at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
313: Climate Apocalypse
Have humans always been haunted by fears of a climate apocalypse? Or is that a modern phenomenon? Is there a continuity from the Curse of Akkad to the Industrial Revolution? Listen as Tom and Dominic are joined by Peter Frankopan to discuss the history of the climate. *The Rest Is History Live Tou…
How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Humanity
We think of our natural environment as a subset of history, like studying the history of warfare or economics. But in truth, climate is the driving force of humanity, and understanding our climate helps us to understand life on earth in an entirely different way. Of all natural disasters, earthquak…
Inbox: The Falklands Campaign | Milei, Trump and Oil | Book Club
Why is a war fought 44 years ago back on the front pages?
What happens when a combative president in Buenos Aires, a friend in the White House and an oil field due online in 2028 all point at the same islands?
And, when 99.8% of the people who live there have already voted, whose islands are they t…
Dolly Parton | It's Dolly Parton's World and We're Living In It | 1
Who says no to Elvis Presley — and is proved right eighteen years later?
How does a girl from a one-room cabin with no electricity work out the economics of music publishing before most of Nashville has?
And, in an age that agrees on almost nothing, how did Dolly Parton end up claimed by drag queen…
Inbox: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Arrow Nobody Can Prove | Sue Brunning
Why are a million people about to queue at the British Museum for a strip of embroidered linen?
What if the most famous picture of 1066 isn't a tapestry, was probably stitched in England, and treats the losing king as a hero?
And, if the arrow in Harold's eye was stitched back in by 19th-century re…
Daniel McCarthy's USA 2018, the Ukraine-Russia clash and Peter Frankopan on the New Silk Roads
We ask what the year in US politics looked like for Trump supporters, explore what lies behind the current battle on the Black Sea and rove the New Silk Roads with historian Peter Frankopan.
Dolly Parton | Unproblematic White Queen | Feat. Kelechi Okafor |2
What were the taxi drivers of 1990s Accra playing on repeat?
How does a woman who swore she was "not a bit political" write a hit about being used up and spat out by the system?
And, what does it take for the most unmistakably white icon in American country music to become the unproblematic queen o…
Inbox: The Invisible Machine Behind Everything | Ed Conway
Why did the cod in your fish fingers go to China and back before it reached your freezer?
What does a medieval king blocking English wool from Flanders have to do with Xi Jinping's grip on rare earths?
And, if China can now build cars far more cheaply than Europe or America, could the West lose its…
651. The Ultimate Dance Partner
For most of human history, horsepower made the world go. Then came the machines. So why are there still seven million horses in America? (Part one of a series, “The Horse Is Us.”)
SOURCES:
Ann N. Greene, historian of 19th century America, retired professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cons…
The Earth Transformed | Her Story and the Natural World | 1
Why does the ancient Greek word for bravery come from the word for man, and what did bronze spears have to do with it?
How does one of the coldest decades in 2,000 years end with around 100,000 women on trial for meddling with the weather?
And, what links a woman blamed for a hailstorm in the 1590s…
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