William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK episode: 🏴☠️CAPTAIN MORGAN, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 🏴☠️ AND THE PIRATES OF PANAMA🏴☠️

"We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza" theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
"Gazans 'wasting away' as mass starvation spreads, more than 100 humanitarian groups warn" (And still @Keir_Starmer hasnt said a word about this, the biggest moral failure of the West in our time) bbc.com/news/articles/…
Here you can see Francis Drake's own drawing of Nombre de Dios in Panama and what it looks like today... Listen NOW wherever you get your podcasts linktr.ee/empirepoduk
How did a Welsh buccaneer lead an attack on the heart of Spain’s empire in Panama? How did Elizabeth I fund Francis Drake’s first slaving voyage? @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita are joined once again by Mark Horton to discuss the brutal pirate raids of the 1600s
NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY 🏴☠️Pirates of Panama🏴☠️ Sir Francis Drake Strikes the Heart of Imperial Spain Who was Captain Morgan, and why is a spiced rum named after him?
Another Hebrew-only Ynet piece—this time by veteran Israeli reporter Ron Ben-Yishai—is more candid and direct than anything printed in English. It lays out how the Israeli government is starving Gaza and killing those desperate enough to seek food.
Imagine what a brainwashed moron you have to be in order to think that every aid agency on earth is lying and only the country slaughtering thousands of children is telling the truth.
"Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens. Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals" theguardian.com/global-develop…
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
New from @EmpirePodUK Pirates ☠️ of Panama: Sir Francis Drake Strikes the heart of Imperial Spain
NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY 🏴☠️Pirates of Panama🏴☠️ Sir Francis Drake Strikes the Heart of Imperial Spain Who was Captain Morgan, and why is a spiced rum named after him?
We need to stop Israel now or will be too late to save seven million Palestinians from genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The Israeli Knesset has passed a declarative proposal, with a majority of 71 members, calling for the “imposition of Israeli sovereignty” over the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
You don't get a Nobel Peace Prize for aiding and abetting genocide. If Trump wants one, he should use his enormous leverage to stop Israel's killing and starving of Palestinian civilians and to push for a Palestinian state. I explain in this interview: analystnews.org/posts/trump-co…
Former UN aid chief: Israel committing ‘worst crime of the 21st century’ in Gaza pulse.ly/42ijniiwd5
For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent: This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life. You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.
Proud to sign this letter, with over 50 other senior former UK diplomats and officials urging action on Gaza, as well as recognition of Palestinian state. Letter to the Prime Minister calls for the UK to recognise Palestinian statehood | UNA-UK una.org.uk/letter-prime-m…
Our @EmpirePodUK series on Trump's Imperial Invasion list continues: we've now covered Greenland and Canada and are now on to Panama...
Empire Club members get to binge ALL FIVE episodes of our extraordinary -and often shocking- Panama series. From Francis Drake and pirates, to eccentric Frenchmen drumming up support to build the biggest canal in the world, it's a corker! ⭐Join now⭐ empirepod.supportingcast.fm
I just discovered the amazingly insightful @EmpirePodUK — can’t wait to get drunk 🍹
Who was Captain Morgan, and why is a spiced rum named after him?
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274. Pirates of Panama share.google/fPjbIWZTLOodvz…
How did Elizabeth I fund Francis Drake’s first slaving voyage? William and @tweeter_anita are joined once again by historian and archaeologist Mark Horton to discuss English pirate raids in Panama in the 1600s. @EmpirePodUK Pirates of Panama share.google/DZZfotdC9AvF8x…