Two Friends Talk History Podcast

A podcast where two friends…talk history! Two Friends Talk History is a podcast where public historian, Zofia, chats with scholars, archaeologists, researchers and more to explore fascinating histories, look behind the scenes and ask the big question that’s missing in much academic discourse: so what? Why is this relevant today?

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Each Episode has New Friends on Two Friends

Carrying on from season 1 in which Zofia and Liam explored the ancient world through stories and interviews, season 2 invites new friends to Two Friends. With this podcast, I am interested in exploring global histories, landscapes and many other topics with my awesome guests!

Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity – Two Friends Talk History

In this episode of Two Friends Talk History, Zofia interviews Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews, and founder of the Visualising War and Peace Project, Dr Alice König. In this interview, Zofia asks Alice about ideas of representing war in antiquity, and if concepts like a ‘peace movement’ was possible in a period of Roman Imperium. We discuss the absences in war narratives, and war’s impacts on women and children, and then turn our attention to the podcast series that Dr König and Dr Nicolas Wiater, launched in 2021, the Visualising War and Peace podcast. The Visualsing War and Peace podcast has over 60 episodes and seeks to present listeners with cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on how war and peace were visualised in the past and how new narratives these established frameworks are seeking to disrupt the ways we talk about, teach and reproduce conflicts.We also discuss the upcoming exhibition Alice has organised with the artist, Diana Forster, opening May 25th at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews, 'Somewhere to Stay’. The exhibition focuses on the forced migration experienced by Diana's mother, a young Polish woman, during WWII.To hear Diana's episodes, you can listen to Art and War with Diana Forster or Visualising Forced Migration Through History.We also discussed the upcoming exhibition collaboration with Hugh Kinsella Cunningham,  titled 'Picturing Peace in the Congo'. you can find more information linked here. You can get in touch with Dr Konig at the University of St Andrews and her work on the Visualising War and Peace project here. Alice is also on Twitter @KonigAlice or @VisualisingWar. You can also follow the project on Facebook and Instagram, and there is an excellent blog series that you can follow through the project website/blog.  For links to show topics:On the appropriation of Classics topics/symbols etc by alt-right groups, helpful scholarship can be read here on Pharos' website: https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/To get in touch and find out more about Two Friends Talk History:Find us on InstagramSupport us through Patreon Buy our merch on RedbubbleExplore more resources and topics about the ancient world on ArchaeoArtistMusic by the wonderfully talented Chris SharplesImage credits: cover illustration by Zofia GuertinIf you'd like to get in touch, email at twofriendstalkhistory@gmail.com. 
  1. Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity
  2. Tyranny in Antiquity
  3. Wishing Upon a Romano-British Well
Episode 9 “Lands of Ice” featured my interview with Jennie Heyes, an incredible storyteller and Inuit elder, who shared stories about her nomadic childhood in Nunavut.

The art for Two Friends Talk History

With each episode, I wanted to find a way to include art into this project, since that gives me life. One of the coolest parts about starting this podcast is that each topic inspired some wild mash-up and ignited creative ideas that I could channel into episode art! I use historical and archaeological sources for style and content to inspire the artistic renderings! You can find fabulous Two Friends Talk History merchandise here on my Redbubble Shop!

All episode art is created by me, Zofia!

Join me on Patreon!

If you would like to support this podcast and keep it going, I have set up a PATREON page where interested parties can sign up for a monthly pledge to at the cost of a pint and have access to a bunch of exciting stuff: episode art, additional content (maps, images and related goodies), 100 Word Histories and downloadable art extras! You can also check out the accompanying images on the TFTH INSTAGRAM.

I am so excited to learn and share new things on this project! It’s a totally wild ride creating a podcast, so please bare with me while I get my hosting sea legs! Please check it out on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and anywhere else you listen to your podcasts. Ratings and reviews are fundamental to gaining any visibility, so please check it out and leave a review!

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