62 mins watch time
Posted May 2022
History
Charting Britain’s geopolitical fortunes over thousands of years, and revealing its transformation from a European satellite into a state at the centre of global power, commerce, and culture, Stanford Professor Ian Morris explores how geography, migration, government and new technologies interacted to produce regional inequalities that still affect us today. And he looks to the future: as power and wealth shift from West to East, does Britain’s future lie with Europe or the wider world?
