Aspects of History

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

51 min • 8 januari 2022

"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

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