Jeremy Paxman on the History of Coal Mining, The Battle of Orgreave and Napoleon

"Scargill was right!" The legendary presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge talks with me about how the Coal Mining Industry built Britain, the 1984/85 Miners Strike and Arthur Scargill, as well as discussing Napoleon and the two Central American countries of Belize and El Salvador. Jeremy Paxman links (discussed in the chat) Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain: ⁠https://amzn.to/3qXy6qX⁠ Being Napoleon, the Netflix Documentary featuring the 'New Napoleon': ⁠https://www.netflix.com/title/80993489⁠ Paxman's Interview with 'Napoleon': ⁠https://www.ft.com/content/e82dd1c2-1a22-11e5-a130-2e7db721f996⁠ The debate between two biographers of Napoleon, Adam Zamoyski and Andrew Roberts, chaired by Paxman: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ4TcTcPbI⁠ Aspects of History links: https://twitter.com/olliewcq https://aspectsofhistory.com https://youtube.com/aspectsofhistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices