William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
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“Out of a clear sky you send broken heart emojis”
A brilliant, confronting new poem by Zaffar Kunial, written into the scarred, scoured, “jagged blooded” heart of this moment.
Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser.
It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment.
To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends.
More on the project below.
Congratulations to our eight finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024!
'Every work here is testament to the power of blazing imagination and patient craft in our complex times.' - Alexandra Harris, Chair of Judges
Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…
Congratulations to the finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2024!
'Many of the books we have chosen are sure to become modern classics. It will not be easy to choose a winner.' - Peter Frankopan, Chair of Judges
Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…
Our Empire Podcast series on Imperial America continues with its examination of all the contradictions inherent in the self-proclaimed Empire of Liberty. Don't miss this week's episodes:
George Washington, Plantation Slavery and the Dispossession of the Indigenous Americans
🚨 New episode 🚨
Mrs Genghis Khan
Börte came from a powerful nomadic tribe and in many ways her marriage to Genghis Khan set him up to become the great conqueror we know.
William Dalrymple + anita anand + Marie Favereau
This weekend's recommendation from the back catalogue is...
Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia
William Dalrymple + anita anand + S Sebag Montefiore on the brutality of Ivan the Terrible and the dawn of the Russian Empire.
New Empire Podcast double bill:
The Virginia Company, Jamestown & Pocahontas:
The First English settlements in North America
Genius, fun, learned and with some wonderful 30 million listeners to Empire Podcast, with William Dalrymple and anita anand the warmest BRAVO to you both, these are simply terrific!
Empire Podcast America series so far birth of America, real Pocahontas, French-British tensions, George Washington’s Yorkshire connections!
Bloodshed, land grabs , colonialism…seems not much changes
🙏🏽anita anand William Dalrymple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emp…
Listen Empire Podcast as William and anita anand dive into the early life of Thomas Jefferson and try to understand the contradictions of a great champion of Liberty who kept six hundred human beings enslaved.
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New Empire Podcast drop-
The Founding Fathers mini-series part 2:
Thomas Jefferson before the American Revolution
Hrithik Jignasa Sanjeev khandekar سنجیو کھنڈیکر संजीव खांडेकर William Dalrymple Indian Art Gopali Ghosh 🇬🇧🇮🇳 🇺🇦 Amit Guha DrMadhuTeckchandani Several inscriptions on the complete work with V&A, the work is attributed to Abul Hasan.