History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past

Hungry for seconds? Well, History's Greatest Dishes from History Extra is back for series two. To join us as we serve up stories of some remarkable delicacies from the past, search History's Greatest Dishes and follow the feed wherever you get your podcasts. Hungry for seconds? Well, History's Greatest Dishes from History Extra is back for series two. To join us as we serve up stories of some remarkable delicacies from the past, search History's Greatest Dishes and follow the feed wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to our monthly series History Behind the Headlines. In each episode, an expert panel will be exploring the historical news stories that have caught their eye, and the history that will help you make sense of what's going on in the world. Each month I'll be joined by our two regular panelists. I'm Hannah Skoda, I'm fellow and tutor in medieval history at St John's College in Oxford. I'm Rana Mitter, I'm ST Lee Chair in US Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, and I'm a specialist on modern Chinese history.

Thank you both so much, as always, for being here. We're going to start by talking about the recent US election results and the historical parallels that you both think we can meaningfully draw to what's just happened in the United States. Hannah, did you want to start? Yes. I think it's really striking that in some of the media commentaries there've been potential comparisons or explorations of the ways in which Trump's inner circle may or may not resemble medieval and Tudor courts. And obviously, as a medievalist, that's something that rather interests me. So I think we're all very aware in the UK at the moment of what Henry the Eighth's court was like. And just how terrifying it was to be a member of that court, because of course we have this amazing new adaptation of Wolf Hall on the BBC.

At the moment. And it's a court in which it really matters to be as close as possible to the king himself. But where if you fall out with the king, you're likely to be accused of treason, which is his favorite way of getting rid of former friends. But it's quite interesting that as well as this sense of the Tudor Court being really a very toxic arena of

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