UnHerd | Jonathan Sumption: War, lockdowns and lessons from the past @UnHerd | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
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Former Supreme Court judge, and celebrated historian of The Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss continental entanglements past and present, and the disrupted civil and international order we face today.

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00:00 - 01:25 - Introduction
01:25 - 10:06 - What can we learn about today from the Medieval History?
10:06 - 18:35 - Warfare and Nation States
18:35 - 27:41 - Joan of Arc
27:41 - 37:50 - Revisiting the Covid era
37:50 - 50:02 - The Geneva Convention and the EHRC
50:02 - 01:06:12 - Reputations and academic excellence
01:06:12 - 01:06:34 - Concluding thoughts


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