Life Lessons from History
Hosted by David Musgrove and Dave Musgrove · History Extra
3.9from 31 ratings
- 25
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Life Lessons from History
How can the experience of the Babylonians and Assyrians ease our worries now? Can we look to a Tudor queen for advice on procrastination? How can we harness the ancient fear of faeries and witches to add a bit of enchantment to our lives today? What’s this all about? It’s a simple concept. I find a great historian or archaeologist and I ask them to propose a Life Lesson from History – some learning from their study of the past that will help us today to live better, happier, healthier, or more productive lives.
- Publisher
- History Extra
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Nov 2025
- Latest episode
- 11 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 25 episodes have a transcript.
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Throw away your phone and go to a ball
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Just get outside, the air is lovely
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wait for the wheel of fortune to turn your way
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Throw away your phone and go to a ball
Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What would we be doing now? That's what I'm thinking. You know, what would we do for fun? So that's why I thought this was fun, because they had to think like that. You know, they didn't know what else to do. They read, I guess. If they were staying in, they might read. They might have music recitals. But even then, that was for a gathering of people, not just a solo activity. So that's interesting, isn't it? Because a lot of time these days, we are solo, or at least maybe we're with company, but we're actually flying solo with our phones. So was there less solitude in the Georgian period? I think absolutely, yes. […]
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- Roderick Bailey
- Alun Withey
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David Musgrove and Dave Musgrove host the show. Published by History Extra.
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