Voices of the Past

    Season 2021 2021

    • 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z
    • 5m
    • 3h (36 episodes)
    Voices of the Past is an attempt to tell the story of our species through the written accounts of the very people who lived through it.

    36 episodes

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    Extract taken from "Accounts of China and India"
    by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī
    Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    Published by: NYU Press
    https://nyupress.org/9781479830596/accounts-of-china-and-india/

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    Ghateshwara Mahadeva  By Balaji - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19568036

    Kannauj Triangle By w:user:Planemad - Own workInternational Borders: University of Texas map library - India Political map 2001Disputed Borders: University of Texas map library - China-India Borders - Eastern Sector 1988 & Western Sector 1988 - Kashmir Region 2004 - Kashmir Maps.State and District boundaries: Census of India - 2001 Census State Maps - Survey of India Maps.Other sources: US Army Map Service, Survey of India Map Explorer, Columbia UniversityMap specific sources: "John Keay, History of India, 2000, Grove publications, New York, ISBN 0-8021-3797-0" page 198., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1846341

    Sand dunes By Nepenthes - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5623273

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    Indian Rhino By Lurey Rohit - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6938018

    Rhino By Sanjay ach - self-made at San Diego Zoo, San Diego, Califor

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    Extracts taken from "The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier" by Jakob Walter (Doubleday, 1991)

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    European Map 1812:  Alexander Altenhof, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    German village Peter Paul Rubens, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Frankfurt Oder Surroundings By Gottfried Hoffmann -…, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52367565

    Nikolay Samokish

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    Extracts taken from "The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life in His Own Words ..." (1910) Compiled by Robert Matteson Johnston.

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    Alexander Altenhof, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    By Shakko - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25006628

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    Extracts taken from "The Recollections of Rifleman Harris" by Benjamin Randell Harris (1848).

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    Extracts taken from "A View of America" by No-Yong Park (1951):
    https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010317954

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    San Francisco (1955 Cinemascope film)
    by Tullio Pellegrini
    Prelinger Archives

    Golden Gate By Rich Niewiroski Jr. - http://www.projectrich.com/gallery, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1520007

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    Extracts taken from "The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier" (1830) by Joseph Plumb Martin.

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    Taken from "Chau Ju-Kua On The Chinese and Arab Trade in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century" (1911)

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    Asram de Wikipedia en francés

    Carole Raddato

    Ruthven
    Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

    Age of the Caliphs
    Zoom into this map at maps.bpl.org.
    Publisher: CIA
    Date: 1993.
    Location: Middle East
    By VAwebteam - V&A, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4764103

    DHOW By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13092508

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    00:00 Introduction
    04:20 The End of the Beginning
    10:31 Japan Meets The World
    18:00 Business Opportunities
    20:33 Meat
    24:57 Upgrading The Military
    30:22 Rebellion
    37:11 Big in the West
    44:36 Climbing the Ladder
    48:15 Tension with the West
    52:58 The First Rank of Nations

    Written by Thomas Lockley.
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    Bibliography:

    Beasley, William. 1995. Japan Encounters the Barbarian. Japanese Travellers in America
        and Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

    Bird, Isabella. 2006. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Saitama: Japan and Stuff Press.

    Checkland, Olive. 2003. Japan and Britain after 1859 – Creating Cultural Bridges. London
    and New York: Routledge.

    Cwiertka, Katarzyna. 2006. Modern Japanese Cuisine. Food, Power and National Identity.
    London: Reaktion Books.

    De Coningh, Assendelft. 2012. A Pioneer in Yokohama. A Dutchman’s Adventures in the
    New Treaty Port. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing.

    Downer, Lesley. 2003. Madame Sadayakko. The Geisha who Bewitched the West. New York:
    Gotham Books.

    Esposito, Gabriele. 2020. Japanese Armies 1868-1877. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

    Fukuzawa, Yukichi and Kiyooka, Eiichi (tr.) 1966. The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa.
    New York: Columbia University Press.

    Gardiner, Michael. 2007. At the Edge of Empire. The Life of Thomas Blake

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    Extracts taken from The Histories by Herodotus (translated by AD Godley).

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    Scythian Archers By PHGCOM - Own work, photographed at Musée du Louvre, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9477673

    Man with cap By I, PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2443737

    Scythian petrogylph By Paul Munhoven - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16153552

    Wooden Pole © Copyright Graham Hogg and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

    Scythian gold By Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France - Applique de vêtement kazakh (musée Guimet), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24669967

    Scythian Grave By Boris Rezvantsev - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45218146

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    Extracts taken from: An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru by Titu Cusi Yupanqui
    Translated by Ralph Bauer
    (University Press of Colorado 2005)

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    Machu Pichu By Christophe Meneboeuf - XtoF - Own work.More photos related to Peru & Bolivia on my website: https://www.xtof.photo, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4367116

    Inca Bird By Simon Burchell - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19248643

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    Extracts taken from "The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema" translated by John Winter Jones.

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    Extracts taken from:
    The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns.

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    Extracts taken from:
    Liberty Magazine, February 9, 1935
    Colliers Magazine, January 30, 1926

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    00:00 Introduction
    3:14 Japan: The Idea
    6:43 The Journey
    10:04 Portugal
    14:56 Spain
    21:23 Italy and Rome
    29:33 Home Again

    Written by Thomas Lockley.
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    Edited and narrated by David Kelly.
    Art by Matthew Cartwright.

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    Bibliography:
    Boscaro, Adriana. 1973. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1587 Edicts Against Christianity
    Oriens Extremus, 20, 2, pp. 219-241.

    Cooper, Michael. 2005. The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590. Folkestone: Global Oriental.

    Frois, Luis. 2014. The First Description of Japan, 1585. A critical English-language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan. Abingdon: Routledge.

    Lee, Adele. 2018. The English Renaissance and the Far East. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

    Markley, Robert. 2006. The Far East and The English Imagination, 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Massarella, Derek (ed.), & Moran, J. F. (tr.). 2012. Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe. A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590.) Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing (on behalf of the Hakluyt Society.)

    Moran, J. F. 1996. The Japanese and the Jesuits. Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan. Abingdon: Routledge.

    Üçerler, M. Antoni J. 2003. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer
    Renaissance Studies, 17, 3, pp. 337-366

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    Kushima Castle

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    Extracts from "A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499" translated by E. G. RAVENSTEIN, F.R.G.S.

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    Extracts taken from:
    A Fatalist at War by Rudolf Binding - Translated by Ian F.D. Morrow (Allen & Unwin, 1929)
    https://archive.org/details/fatalistatwar00rudo/mode/2up

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    German Soldiers By Rudolf Simon sen. / Lizenzinhaber: RudolfSimon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65078595

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    Trench in Flanders By Ken Eckert - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39240724

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    Extracts from My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Ben Johnston and Nikola Tesla (1919)

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    00:00 Introduction
    04:55 Rise of the Wako (400 BC - 1260)
    10:00 Pirates for Hire (1274)
    13:52 Rise of the Ming (1380)
    18:09 Southern Barbarians (1517)
    26:41 Conquistadors (1582)
    33:31 The English (1605)
    38:32 Pirates of God (1603)
    45:02 Koxinga and the House of Zheng (1647)
    55:27 Madam Zheng, Pirate Queen (1810)
    1:02:24 End of an Era (1844)

    Written by Thomas Lockley.
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    Edited and narrated by David Kelly.
    Art by Matthew Cartwright:
    https://mattcartwrightillustration.com/

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    Augustus Image By Janmad on basis of the picture by Jastrow → Image:Great Cameo of France CdM Paris Bab264 n1.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5202537
    Watazumi Shrine By user:opqr - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12363852
    Caravel By Kyle Taylor from London, 84 Countries - Lisbon With Langon - 56Uploaded by tm, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26070971
    Jambiya Dagger By Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia - Jambiya, Traditional Yemeni, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33168037
    Wall Ligor By Suwannee.payne - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curi

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    Extracts from "Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia during his tour through Europe in A.D. 1873"

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    Extracts taken from "The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe by Kume Kunitake, Graham Healey, Chushichi Tsuzuki, Martin Collcutt, Andrew Cobbing, P. F. Kornicki, Eugene Soviak." https://www.amazon.com/Iwakura-Embassy-1871-1873-Extraordinary-Plenipotentiarys/dp/4901617001

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    Extracts taken from "The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe by Kume Kunitake, Graham Healey, Chushichi Tsuzuki, Martin Collcutt, Andrew Cobbing, P. F. Kornicki, Eugene Soviak."
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    Japanese Armor in Tower of London By Tristan Surtel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83067677
    Assyrian Carving By Jase Curtis from London, England - British Museum, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105247592
    Vase By Paul Hudson from United Kingdom - British Museum - 30 minute photo challenge, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97279374
    Cup By Paul Hudson from United Kingdom - British Museum - 30 minute photo challenge, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97279356
    Chocolate Factory By Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22243749
    Dutch East India Company By Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72939415
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    Extracts taken from "THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO
    WRITTEN BY HIMSELF CONTAINING A TRUE AND FULL ACCOUNT
    OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF MEXICO AND NEW SPAIN."
    TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH BY
    JOHN INGRAM LOCKHART, F.R.A.S.
    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32475

    Image credits:

    Cortes destroying his ships By AlejandroLinaresGarcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7924717
    Cortes and his soldiers By José Luis Pescador - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61937701
    Feathered Serpent Statue By Jami Dwyer - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamidwyer/2844706070/in/set-72157606952714490/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4973343

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    Extracts taken from "A Hangman’s Diary: Being the Authentic Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg 1573–1617."
    Translated by C. Calvert and A.W. Gruner.
    Published by D. Appleton, second impression October, 1928.

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    Extracts taken from "Ranald MacDonald: the narrative of his early life on the Columbia under the Hudson’s Bay Company’s regime; of his experiences in the Pacific whale fishery; and of his great adventure to Japan; with a sketch of his later life on the western frontier, 1824–1894" ed. W. S. Lewis and Naojiro Murakami.

    Beautiful artwork by Matthew Cartwright.
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    Footage from Videoblocks.

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    Japanese Traditional House By JayWalsh - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30719844
    Traditional Hearth By Reggaeman - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7523852
    Hotel By Boltor - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87671026

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    Extracts taken from "The Cosmotheoros" or "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets" by Christiaan Huygens (translated from the Latin, published in 1698)

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    By jonjanego - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonjanego/2777527481/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12114789

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    Extracts from THE FIRST CRUSADE: THE ACCOUNTS OF EYE-WITNESSES AND PARTICIPANTS
    BY AUGUST C. KREY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921
    https://archive.org/stream/firstcrusadeacco00kreyuoft/firstcrusadeacco00kreyuoft_djvu.txt
    and the translation by Martha Evelyn McGinty:
    CHRONICLE OF THE FIRST CRUSADE
    (Fulcheri Carnotensis Historia Hierosolymitana)
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS 1941
    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0072704612&view=1up&format=plaintext&seq=1&skin=2021

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    Extracts from The Life of Saladin by Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad translated by Claude Reignier Conder
    (1897) Published by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund

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