Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Deaths from cholera

Seven cholera pandemics have occurred in the past 200 years, with the first pandemic originating in India in 1817. The seventh cholera pandemic is officially a current pandemic and has been ongoing since 1961, according to a World Health Organization factsheet in March 2022.

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  1. Clausewitz and On War

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss On War, the 19th-century treatise on the theory of warfare by the Prussian soldier Carl von Clausewitz.

    17 May 2012

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    Featuring: Saul David, Hew Strachan, Beatrice Heuser

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    PhilosophyMilitary theoristsGerman military writersDeaths from choleraPolitical realists19th-century German writersGerman untitled nobilityPhilosophers of warGerman male non-fiction writersTheoretical historians19th-century German male writersMilitary personnel from Saxony-Anhalt

  2. Hegel's Philosophy of History

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom, and whether we enjoy more freedom now than those in past centuries.

    26 May 2022

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    Featuring: Sally Sedgwick, Robert Stern, Stephen Houlgate

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    PhilosophyGerman philosophers of artGerman political philosophersUniversity of Tübingen alumniGerman LutheransTheoretical historians19th-century German philosophers19th-century mysticsGerman idealistsPhilosophers of law18th-century German writersDeaths from choleraPhilosophy writers18th-century German male writersGerman philosophers of mind, German philosophers of religionWriters about religion and scienceAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin18th-century German philosophers, 18th-century essayists19th-century German male writersGerman philosophers of language19th-century German essayistsBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryGerman male essayists18th-century German educators, 18th-century historians, 19th-century German educators, 19th-century historiansMetaphysiciansHeidelberg University alumniPantheistsEnlightenment philosophersGerman philosophers of historyGerman male non-fiction writers