Dan Jones

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3,287 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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This is History: The Tudors · Dan Snow is taking Dan Jones places · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

I used to think people repeatedly make the same mistakes in different eras of history because they don't know enough about history.

And then the the more sort of powerful political people I I kind of

m uh bump into or off as I grow up, the more I think no, they usually know quite a lot about history but hi that they it's usually No, no, I've read a lot of history and now I'm not going to do the same thing because I'm smarter.

Yes.

Or no I I no, I'm still gonna invade it in the winter, but I because I know I've got to fuck it up this time.

Yeah, I got tech.

So my my th my thinking about that is uh with regard to ha you know, it would be very nice for us to go and colonize the moon and Mars and then not immediately have a massive war about who gets the best bit of it.

Would be lovely.

Yes, and and that's why I suppose certain like foundational religious texts just i endure, I mean, in their in their moral dimension, because typically they're dealing with a well, the seven deadly sins.

Talking of ancient texts you're gonna love this segue.

I mean I just think I'm so I'm so crazy.

I'm here for it.

This is where where do you want to go?

Where do you want to go in the west?

I want to go to Hissalik.

And actually we were just talking about it before we started recording.

This time almost exactly to the day, I um I went down to the putative site of the Trojan War.

That's cool.

Absolutely amazing.

So this is in uh in southwest Turkey, on the um the Gallipoli, the Dardanelles, the uh you know most famous.

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