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Lectures in Intellectual History

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Liberalism
Poverty
Enlightenment
Individualism
Thomas Malthus
Intellectual History
Freedom
Thomas Hobbes
Politics Of Recognition
Irish Act Of Union
Essay On the Principle Of Population
Polish-Lithuanian Republic
Frederick the Great
Cold War
Totalitarianism
Populism
Eastern Orthodox Political Theology
Christianity
The Winding Stair
Francis Bacon

Recordings from the popular public lecture series featuring new work on all aspects of intellectual history. Hosted by the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. standrewsiih.substack.com

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This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 26 November 2025. Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor in History and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Population at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). Her work conn... more

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 19th of November 2025. Niall O’Flaherty is Reader in History of European Political Thought at King’s College London. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century social, r... more

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 15th of October 2025. The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author.

Avi Lifschitz is Professor of Intellectual History and Enlightenment Studies at Magdalen Colleg... more

This discussion took place a the University of St Andrews on February 26, 2025. Ann Thomson is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, having been Professor of Intellectual History there from 2013 to 2020. Her research interests inclu... more

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Speaker presenting work on Malthus; affiliated with King's College London
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Episode: Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) - "Malthus and the Global Turn"
Avi Lifschitz
Lecturer from Magdalen College, Oxford
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Episode: Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Professor of philosophy, Levy-Hulme Visiting Professor at the University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews
Episode: Ramin Jahanbegloo - "The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry" (Book launch)
Michael Brown
Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, working on Britishness and its creation
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Episode: Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) - "Creating an Ancien Regime: The Union of 1800 as a Counter Revolutionary Act"

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4.2 out of 5 stars from 104 ratings
  • Enlightenment

    Surely one of the things the optimistic men of the 18th century anticipated by the early 21st century was excellent sound recording quality…

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    StacemeisterUK
    United Kingdom24 days ago
  • Better sound please

    Generally, this podcast makes a classic university mistake of having someone sit in the middle of the crowd to hold up the microphone. The speaker sounds far away and the echoes are distracting. In one lecture, the audio is simply too quiet. I shouldn’t have to disable my iPhone safe audio feature just to hear one podcast. In one lecture the audio had an added distortion so that the speaker was even more garbled than usual.

    I simply must give up on this podcast. The fact that the topics are ver... more

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    Crowbar Man
    United States5 years ago
  • DANGER

    There’s a high pitch whining sound throughout the David D’Avray lecture. It was annoying throughout but afterwards my ears hurt and now I have a high pitched ringing in my ears that won’t go away. The hosts of this podcast should pull that episode and others like it to avoid causing HEARING LOSS. Really hope my hearing recovers. No podcast is worth this.

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    Mr. Podcast1234
    United States6 years ago
  • Poor sound quality

    The speakers are superb in their knowledge and somehow the sound quality is consistently poor. Can the sound quality at least reflect the effort that these scholars put into their work?

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    想上FB的人
    United States6 years ago
  • Impressive but arcane

    Abstract and very academic, the selection of speakers is impressive but the sound quality of the recordings is often poor.

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    Carneades
    United States6 years ago

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Ramin Jahanbegloo - "The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry" (Book launch)
Q: My first question for you, Ramin, about the idea of Persia itself historically, because you, as an activist, believe in ideas crossing borders and universal progress—why does it matter so much that Persia is tied to a place?
The idea of Persia matters not as a narrow nationalism but as a historical locale that anchors a long strand of consciousness and intellectual history, showing how ideas cross cultural borders while still being rooted in particular places and histories.

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Public lecture series highlighting new work in intellectual history, often exploring connections between politics, philosophy, and society. Episodes frequently feature university scholars presenting detailed arguments, with discussions that tie historical ideas to broader cultural and political contexts. Notable strengths include rigorous scholarship and a willingness to tackle ambitious, interdisciplinary topics; occasional audio issues are a recurring gripe from listeners, but the intellectual depth and breadth remain a strong draw for researchers, students, and policy-minded listeners who enjoy nuanced historical analysis.

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