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Nation In Arms: Lessons from Five Armies That Made Europe
What can the Roman legions of Constantine, the Ottoman forces of Mehmet the Conqueror, and the US Army of World War II teach us about modern military…
8 months, 1 week ago
Anglo American rivalries in the Middle East
At the heart of Britain's war time alliance was a deep wariness at what the outcome of the war would portend. Churchill was desperate for the USA to …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Economic Sanctions: Crimes against humanity.
In this episode, we tear away the euphemisms and expose a grim reality: sanctions kill.
Drawing on a 2025 study from The Lancet Global Health, we sho…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
From Powell Memo to Policy Powerhouse: How Right-Wing Think Tanks Hijacked America’s Future since 1973
How did neoliberalism go from fringe idea to ruling ideology in the United States? In this deep-dive episode of Explaining History, we trace the hidd…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Britain's Austerity Trap
Britain’s Austerity Trap
Why is one of the world’s richest countries still behaving like it’s broke?
In this episode of Explaining History, we dive int…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
A Gaza coalition emerging
The extent to which western soft power and legal and moral authority has been shredded by Gaza is lost upon British, American and European population…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Moral justifications for modern war
Warfare had to be re-propagandised in the 20th Century, particularly in the western world, as a moral crusade. Mass democracy determined that leaders…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Maoist struggle sessions and the Cultural Revolution
This episode draws from the excellent book Red Memory by Tania Brannigan, an oral history of the Cultural Revolution. Here we examine the role of tho…
9 months ago
Violeta Parra: Chile’s Folk Revolutionary, Cold-War Exile & Mother of Nueva Canción
***PLEASE LISTEN TO THE END***
Chilean folk icon Violeta Parra (1917-1967) was far more than the singer of “Gracias a la Vida.” In this episode, Eric…
9 months ago
Post war lesbian life in Britain
Join us on The Explaining History Podcast as we welcome Dame Vikki Heywood, former Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal …
9 months ago