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Britain in an age of crisis 2001-2025
The period of the last 25 years in Britain has been one of continual crisis and disaster, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to Brexit and cov…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
A Chinese Century?
America's de-industrialisation, offshoring, its battle to maintain dollar supremacy whilst also restoring itself to being a net exporter have led to …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Hollywood, witch hunts and class struggle in LA
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we speak with the writer Dennis Broe whose new book The Dark Ages, explores the second Hollywood an…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Last flight out of Saigon - a story from the last days of the Vietnam War
Fifty years ago, the longest imperial war of the 20th Century ended with the fall of Saigon and the victory of the North Vietnamese in the reunificat…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
China's Neoliberal Turn 1978-89
How did China embrace its own hybrid form of market capitalism with state control after the death of Mao in 1976? How did China avoid the economic sh…
1 year ago
Tariffs, Brexit and the great reorientation
Britain's political class have realised that the writing is on the wall for them in the past week as Trump's tariffs as imposed. This podcast explore…
1 year ago
Changing interpretations on the Nation of Islam
Scholarship of the Black Power Movement in general and the Nation of Islam in particular has been harder to accumulate than that on the main Civil Ri…
1 year, 1 month ago
The decline of US Liberal Internationalism
Since the beginning of the 21st Century, American internationalism has been in crisis and Trump's recent verbal and economic threats towards allies h…
1 year, 1 month ago
Hitler's resource war in Russia - 1941
In June 1941 Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the USSR, they saw the conquest of the country, the eradication of its leadership and the starvation…
1 year, 1 month ago
Humans: A Monstrous History
In this episode of The Explaining History Podcast we were fortunate enough to speak with Dr Surekha Davies, historian of art, science and ideas, whos…
1 year, 1 month ago