Everyone has biases and lenses through which they view current events. But what about history? Those events already happened, so clearly there’s no biases when you’re just looking at old facts, right? Right? Not so much. In this podcast the gentlemen from the Reconsider Podcast (Erik and Xander) stop by (literally – they were at my house in Spain) and we talk about how our biases can affect the way we look at historical events, and how to use their Reconsider Principles to reframe historical events and look at them with more objectivity.
You can also check out their feed for an episode examining xenophobia in history, and how it relates to contemporary political issues. Kind of similar to the episode I did on xenophobia in Elizabethan history, but with a more political slant.
Check out their podcast and blog at http://www.reconsidermedia.com/
Then, just for fun, there’s this video of them doing the opening to the Richard III episode they did for me a few months ago, at Acinipo, a Roman ruin near my house. I highly recommend you check them out. They are seriously funny and smart guys.
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast, the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
