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Approaches to history Part Four: Empiricism
This is part four in our weekly exploration of the practices of historians - Approaches to history. We now examine the empiricist approach, based on …
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China and the west in the 21st Century
The western world as we understand it, is over. China's advances in key technologies has reached an inflection point that is historically without pre…
1 year, 4 months ago
War Reporting in China and the Pacific 1937-41
Drawing from the classic history of war reporting The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley, we explore the history of news, propaganda and misinformat…
1 year, 4 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 8
This is part eight of the Explaining History study course based on the AQA A level history module Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53.
In this…
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Black Civil Rights historiography and Booker T Washington
Why do we remember the civil rights movement in the way that we do? Whilst there is rightly a focus on the post war struggle in the 1950s and 1960s, …
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Dismantling the state in America and Britain
Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic have a specific ideological fixation on dismantling the state. In America tech fuelled accelerationism ha…
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Approaches to history Part Three: Late Medieval History and the Renaissance
In the late middle ages, the chronicling of history began to change and a more analytical way of thinking about the past emerged. Histories that were…
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Declinism, Crisis and Trump
The fear of decline and the widespread belief in its inevitability is nothing new, but part of the explanation as to Trump's recent success is an ove…
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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 Grea…
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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 rig…
1 year, 4 months ago