Dan Snow

We're living in this sort of avalanche of the manosphere, these strange male influencers who seem to despise women apart from when they want to have sex with them.

And he actually describes himself, right?

He says that he's quite moody.

He is this OG kind of romantic, gothic, emo figure, isn't he?

Because he's sort of beautiful and complicated and very, very moody.

Damaged, yeah.

And so there is a sort of, it's anachronistic, but this idea of a celebrity culture in Georgian England during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century.

He is just a sort of, what, a dashing figure in London society that everyone knows and wants to know.

A, he's got the looks and the charisma, but also is he impressing people with his poetry at this point, his writing?

So has he got it just all going on?

He's got everything.

Listen to Dan Snow's history.

We'll talk about Byron more coming up.

And this might be difficult for some people listening because they think, well, hang on, we're moving into the 19th century.

I associate the 19th century with quite strict moral codes and huge penalties and punishments for sex outside marriage.

So is this a subculture?

Is this like the 60s?

Are there sort of two different versions of society at the moment?

There's the stuff going on the King's Road and elsewhere, and then the vast mass of people who live by completely different rules.

I mean, who's your sensation with?