Max Pearson

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1,342 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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The History Hour · Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

They would put some TNT in it and some sharpness, and then they would throw this barrel, handmade by the regime, and they call it stupid weapon because you can't direct it.

So they would drop it in the middle, but they won't use it next to the front line because next to the front line, there is their soldier.

The library team consisted of a group of 20 to 40 young men.

Each of them would rummage amongst the rubble as they went about their daily lives.

If they did happen to stumble across a book, they'd call someone back at the basement.

There is no public transportation, of course, and there is some cars, but sometimes there is no fuel to use these cars.

So we'd use, sometimes we'd use bicycles, sometimes we'd use wheelbarrows.

Together, they collected 15,000 books that were brought down to the basement library, stacked neatly according to author and genre.

Inside each book, the librarians wrote the original owner's name if they knew it, or the building and street name the book was found in, in case the owners ever wanted to return home or retrieve their books.

So some people would come and borrow some books or return some books that they had borrowed before.

And some people would come and read the books in the library itself because it has lighting and it's safe and it's clean.

And there is people who are managing this place.

And there is like this social aspect as well because you meet friends and people share interests.

The library became a place of hope and planning for the future.

So one of the most important philosophers of all time was Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

He used to write many books regarding the French Revolution.

So people started reading these kinds of books, books about social contracts, books about revolution, books about democratic changes, stories of what went wrong, what went well, what should we do.

With so much political turmoil and no civic space, Malik was involved in running a discussion group in the library.

Young boys and young men, they were exposed to many new propagandas.

Let's discuss, do we want our country to be a republic or we want our country to be other kind of government?

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