Tides of History

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• Amorymeltzer · Jul 10, 2026 · Recommends

  Patrick Wyman—of the Tides of History podcast—just put out a new book, Lost Worlds, which is worth a read if this is your bag. The basic premise is that the way ancient history is typically taught, "that we moved linearly from foraging to…

  on “Late Bronze Age Collapse” ↗
• the-smug-one · Feb 12, 2021 · Recommends

  …Often the lords had to supplement this with paid work - peasants did not particularly like giving away their labour for free and as such did not work very hard. My source is Patrick Wyman's podcast "Tides of History". He has a PhD in history. He has a Substack also: https://patrickwyman.substack.com/ and another great podcast, "The Fall of Rome". I cannot ensure that my assertions hold for all of Europe :-).

  on “What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants” ↗
• DanAndersen · Dec 1, 2017 · Recommends

  …Dan Carlin-style "chatting about history" as opposed to the drier "reading off a list of names and events" style: - Patrick Wyman's "Fall of Rome" [ http://wondery.com/wondery/shows/fallofrome/ ] and "Tides of History" [ http://wondery.com/wondery/shows/tidesofhistory/ ]. Good discussion of the Late Imperial period and of the Early Modern Era. Main disadvantage is that the sponsor messages are like commercials in that…

  on “Startup books and podcasts: making the most of a longer commute” ↗
• loudmax · Feb 12, 2021 · Recommends

  …certainly part of this story. If you're at all interested, I'd recommend Curiosity Stream since it's cheap enough to be worth the subscription even if you only watch a few of the videos. Also, the excellent Tides of History podcast is doing a series on early humans. The host Patrick Wyman started this cycle in July 2020 and a lot of the material he talks about is based on the latest archaeological evidence and understanding.…

  on “More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out” ↗
• acjohnson55 · Mar 14, 2022 · Recommends

  Tides of History, also by Patrick Wyman, is also fantastic. Among many other topics, it covers the fall of the Byzantine Empire and rise of the Ottoman Empire.

  on “A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire” ↗
• marojejian · Jan 23, 2023 · Recommends

  I think this episode of Tides of History includes effectively a good review: https://art19.com/shows/tides-of-history/episodes/cb335af3-e... Wyman evaluates it with both sympathy and criticism.

  on “The Dawn of Everything challenges a mainstream telling of prehistory” ↗
• dmreedy · May 9, 2023 · Recommends

  For a longer-form treatment, Patrick Wyman's podcast, Tides of History, has been going through an extended series about prehistory, including the bronze age collapse. It's a lot, and mostly through a particular thinker's lens, but still worthy I think.

  on “The Bronze Age has never looked stronger” ↗
• DubiousPusher · May 9, 2023 · Recommends

  Patrick Wyman's, Tides of History podcast has done a lot of episodes on this and is a great introduction. Yale's introductory Greek history class with lectures from Donald Kagan is available online and part of it covers the Mycenaean…

  on “The Bronze Age has never looked stronger” ↗