Schnack von gestern Fabian Eiden

When in the year 476 the last emperor of the Western Rome was deposed, it marked the end of a realm that had once spanned from Portugal to Saudi-Arabia and from Scotland to Egypt. For much of Europe, it marked the end of a great civilisation and a plunge into the dark ages - or did it?

What was it really like to be alive in the late 5th century? Would people would have felt like the end of the world was coming to an end or was it business as usual? Professorof Early Medieval History and Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge Caroline Goodson takes us sight-seeing in a late-antique cityscape …

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Host & Production: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Guest: Prof. Caroline Goodson
Music & Mastering: Daniel Müller (https://www.instagram.com/songsbydanielpage/)
Graphic Design: Christian Dietz (https://www.instagram.com/chrstndtz/)
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You may remember the Industrial Revolution as that part of your history text book where they started throwing numbers and statistics at you. And while that of course is a fair way to understand what happened when mechanisation transformed the way people had worked for quite literally thousands of years, there are things about the everyday life of people that has so far often stayed hidden.


Archaeologist Kieran Gleave (PhD Candidate in Heritage Studies, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge) shows what the material record tells us about the lives of millions who worked in factories under conditions which are unthinkable to us today. It tells a story of large-scale transformation of economy and peoples’ way of live, of human ingenuity but also poverty and exploitation - and the heritage of this story that lives on to this day.


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Host & Production: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Guest: Prof. Kieran Gleave
Music & Mastering: Daniel Müller (https://www.instagram.com/songsbydanielpage/)
Graphic Design: Christian Dietz (https://www.instagram.com/chrstndtz/)
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The beast of Imperialism is once again rearing its ugly head - and since February 24th, when Russia started its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, it has come to the West’s attention as well. What is the historical background of this latest example of Russia’s aggressive expansionism?

Professor of the History of Russia and the Caucasus and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, Hubertus Jahn takes an in depth look at the imperial past of Tsarist Russia and the legacy of this imperialism that lived on in the Soviet Union and continues to inform Russian foreign policy to this day.

As an expert for Georgia and the Caucasus, Professor Jahn also gives a detailed analysis on the impact Russian rule had on Georgia, its society and culture - but also the influence of Georgia on Russia.

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Host & Production: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Guest: Prof. Hubertus Jahn
Music & Mastering: Daniel Müller (https://www.instagram.com/songsbydanielpage/)
Graphic Design: Christian Dietz (https://www.instagram.com/chrstndtz/)
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Juni ist Pride Month und deswegen ein Anlass, an Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte zu erinnern, die ganz und gar kein Anlass sind, auf sie stolz zu sein. Einer davon ist der Paragraph 175 des deutschen Strafgesetzbuches, der Homosexualität unter Strafe stellte und bis 1994 gültig war.
Welche Schikanen hatten Homosexuelle durch dieses Gesetz zu erleiden? Woher kam es und warum dauerte es so lange, bis es aufgehoben wurde? Und welche Unterschiede gab es in der Kriminalisierung von Homosexualität in der Bundesrepublik im Vergleich mit der DDR? Und wie kann es einer Gesellschaft gelingen, Diskriminierung und Vorurteile zu überkommen und Stück für Stück abzubauen? Über diese wichtigen Fragen unterhält sich Host Fabian Eiden mit dem Historiker Benjamin Brandstetter in Folge 11 von Schnack von Gestern!

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Host & Produktion: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Gast: Benjamin Brandstetter
Musik & Mastering: Daniel Müller (https://www.instagram.com/songsbydanielpage/)
Grafikdesign: Christian Dietz (https://www.instagram.com/chrstndtz/)
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Climate Change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Although man-made climate change is unprecedented, changes in the climate are a challenge that mankind had to overcome for all of its history.
Climate scientist Rosie Lewis (MPhil Candidate in Holocene Climates, Sidnex Sussex College, University of Cambridge) takes us along on a journey that features ice sheets, volcanoes and Old Icelandic literature to understand how our ancestors dealt with climate change, how their perceived drastic events like volcanic eruptions and how understanding the past may help us today to deal with the consequences of climate change.
Rosie’s blog: https://www.theclimatescientist.website/
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Host & Production: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Guest: Rosie Lewis
Music & Mastering: Daniel Müller (https://www.instagram.com/songsbydanielpage/)
Graphic Design: Christian Dietz (https://www.instagram.com/chrstndtz/)

Special Guest: Dr Brynja Thorgeirsdottir (https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/our-people/dr-brynja-thorgeirsdottir)
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Few medieval women had a more varied career than the English princess Matilda: Crowned queen of Germany when still a girl, she acted on behalf of her husband as regent and judge in Italy and would eventually claim the crown of England for herself.
Professor Elisabeth van Houts (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) takes us along for a journey into the Middle Aged to learn about the unique set of challenges that medieval women had to overcome when carving out power and authority for themselves.
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Host & Production: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Guest: Prof. Elisabeth van Houts
Music & Mastering: Daniel Müller (https://www.instagram.com/songsbydanielpage/)
Graphic Design: Christian Dietz (https://www.instagram.com/chrstndtz/)