Since its launch in 2020, their?podcast, "The Rest Is History",has becomethe most subscribed-to podcast in?Britain,guiding listeners from Herodotus?to the fall of?Saigon, by?way?of?Lord Byron's?affair with his half-sister. A new series on?the French revolution launched on July?29th, for those who cannot get enough of?Paris during the Olympic games.在奧運會期間開了法國大革命新系列,絕對是掌握了流量密碼
The hosts of "Empire"?a history podcast?that has clocked over 30m downloads,?recently?sold out another big London venue,?the Barbican, in just two days.播客還帶動了門票的銷售一空,這個厲害了
為什么歷史博客這么火:plundering the past for stories is easy, or thatlisteners just hope to sound clever without reading books.history does not require specialized knowledge.The shows also create a sense of community-and tap into ancient traditions of storytelling.
In America around 100m people listen?to podcasts every week, according to Edison Research, a market-research firm.?Their mean listening time, over an hour a?day, has grown 450% in the past decade.美國竟然這么多人聽播客
"Dig", created by four female historians,focuses on women and gender topics and can work as teaching material.女性歷史學家做的播客還可以做教學材料?。。〈a住
歷史播客開始出現不同流派:"Natalie?Haynes Stands Up for the Classics': a?show by an English writer and broadcaster joins her talent as a professional comedian?with her passion for the ancient world.與喜劇演員結合
Neil MacGregor,who as director of the British Museum?hosted the influential "History of the?World in 100 Objects" podcast, which first?aired in 2010, is a podcasting partisan.大英博物館館長也出現在了播客中
Many podcasters, including professional?historians, point to a parallel evolution:their own capacity as?storytellers keeps improving.說的越多越會說
"It's just made us better at our?craft," says Elizabeth Masarik, one of the?four "Dig" hosts. "We are constantly writing?and constantly researching outside of?the niche that each of our phDs is in."厲害了,不斷精進