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Melting Point: Russian Jews and the journey to Texas
In the decade before the First World War over ten thousand Russian Jews travelled across the Atlantic but instead of alighting in New York, where a l…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Contradictions of Thatcherism
Margaret Thatcher sought to revive Britain's fortunes during the 1980s, she was a social conservative and a free market fundamentalist; a contradicto…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Trump's tariff capitulation
In a hundred years time will China offshore its manufacturing to poorer countries? Not if it has any sense. Today Trump's great retreat from the tari…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Britain, Germany and the Blitz
By the start of the blitz Britain didn't have enough anti aircraft guns, despite half a decade anticipating mass bombing as a means of war. Germany w…
11 months ago
VE Day : London 1945
What was it like to experience the end of the Second World War in London, 80 years ago today? We read David Kynaston's Austerity Britain to find out …
11 months ago
Nazi wartime labour shortages
At the height of the Third Reich's war production there were nearly five million additional German and foreign workers in the war economy. Despite th…
11 months ago
Social change in American post war suburbia
What did the good life look like in 1945? Or more to the point, what did the good life look like to white working and middle class inner city familie…
11 months ago
The German invasion of Belgium: 1914
In the first weeks of the outbreak of the First World War, the outdated Schlieffen Plan required the German Army to rapidly cross Belgium to attack n…
11 months ago
The historiography of Malcolm X
The way in which Malcolm X and the Black Power movement has been interpreted and understood over time has changed as academics grappled with his lega…
11 months, 1 week ago
America's post war rise and fall
In the aftermath of the Second World War, America had half the world's wealth and a quarter of its GDP. By the 1970s its position as an economic powe…
11 months, 1 week ago