Conspiracy Theories (TRIH ep 12)
1678 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss conspiracy theories across history and how they both reflect and shape their times. They examine modern examples (QAnon, vaccine conspiracies, moon-landing denials, JFK theories), and trace parallels to historical episodes including Watergate, the Popish Plot, medieval blood libels (William of Norwich, Hugh of Lincoln), and the Albigensian/Cathar crisis in southern France. They consider the persistence of anti-Semitic conspiracies (Pro...
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- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)