2024 in review: history behind the headlines

Hello and welcome to 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 panellists. I'm Hannah Skoda, I'm fellow and tutor in medieval history at St John's College in Oxford. I'm Ronald Mitter.

I'm ST Lee Chair in US-Asia relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, and I'm a specialist on modern Chinese history. Hannah and Rana, thank you so much as always for being here. We are doing something slightly different with today's episode in that as we go into these final days of 2024, we're looking back at the year's biggest stories, some of the stories we've missed, and some of the major trends and themes. So we're going to start by talking about

Discovery of the Year. And Hannah, I believe you've got some condenders for this title. Yes, I found it really hard to choose. It's been a really exciting year in archaeological terms, in scientific terms. It's been a year where boundaries are really pushing forward, I think.

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