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Planning the Battle of Britain: Hitler's calculations in the summer of 1940
In the summer of 1940 following the victories of the Third Reich in Poland, Norway, the Low Countries and France, Hitler turned his attention to Great Britain. The Nazi leader was determined to force…
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From libertarian to fascist thought
Today we explore an aspect of far right thought that connects libertarian and fascist thought and action. As we face the prospect of a rising far right across the western world (and beyond, though th…
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AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 7
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The Austro Hungarian Empire and the First World War - 1914
In 1914 the Austro Hungarian Empire faced a multiplicity of enemies, including Russia, Serbia and Italy and had a variety of strategic plans to counter these threats. This, and the multi ethnic natur…
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The end of Globalisation
In a new article for the London Review of Books, economic historian Adam Tooze argues that the era of globalisation that existed up to the great financial crisis of 2008 has finally died and instead …
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American workers in Stalin's Russia
During the 1930s over 100,000 American workers left the USA and crossed the Atlantic to the USSR. There they worked in automobile plants and other industrial enterprises of Stalin's Five Year Plans. …
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Britain and the myth of the Special Relationship
The British political class has clung on to a fantasy of its own relevance in Washington DC for decades. The special relationship that British Prime Ministers like to refer to (a bond that perhaps ex…
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Approaches to history Part Two: Teleology and the Middle Ages
In this second episode of our new Approaches to History series, we begin to explore how history was written in the Middle Ages and how that contrasted with the earlier, classical period. You can grab…
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Britain's withdrawal from Palestine: 1944-48
In 1948, the British finally ended their mandate government over Palestine. As they withdrew a vicious civil war between Jewish and Arab communities began, followed by a full invasion by the Arab Lea…
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Populism and the crisis of whiteness
In today's episode, as much of the world still pieces through the results of the election, we explore one of the many explanations for the rise of nativist populism and fascism across the world - the…
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