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August 4, 2022

The Rest Is History | 217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire

Tom and Dominic are joined by friend of the show Kyle Harper to discuss how pandemics and disease played a far greater role in the decline of the Roman Empire than previously understood. On the show Kyle, Dominic, and Tom discuss life expectancy, how the Roman Empire was ‘bad for people’s health', the Antonine Plague, and more.

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Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook, Kyle Harper

February 4, 2022

The Rest Is History | 147. Disease, the New World and modern pandemics

How devastating were European arrivals to the Americas in terms of deaths and the introduction of new infectious diseases? Tom and Dominic are joined by Professor Kyle Harper from the University of Oklahoma to discuss the relationship between disease and colonial expansion, the origins of the Spanish flu and the spread of modern forms of infectious disease. Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Jack Davenport

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Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook, Kyle Harper, Dom Johnson, Jack Davenport

February 3, 2022

The Rest Is History | 146. Disease vs. the rise of civilisation

The way we die has been utterly transformed. There have been around 10,000 generations of human beings, but only in the last 3 or 4 have infectious diseases not been an expected and accepted cause of death. What drove the most deadly infectious diseases? Was technological progress and globalisation one of the key causes for its spread over the course of history? Tom and Dominic are joined by Professor Kyle Harper from the University of Oklahoma to discuss the fascinating history of disease and how shifts in the way we die have changed our world completely. Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor

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Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook, Kyle Harper, Dom Johnson, Tony Pastor

April 9, 2020

Byzantium & Friends | 21. Coping with pandemics, with Tina Sessa and Kyle Harper Thursday Apr 09, 2020

A conversation with Tina Sessa (Ohio State University: see episode 4) and Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma, author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Princeton University Press 2017) on the Byzantine reactions to pandemics. What was the threshold of social visibility for a pandemic anyway? What could the government do to help? What imaginative and social resources were activated in times of pandemic?

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Anthony Kaldellis, Tina Sessa, Kyle Harper