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AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 7

I will be running a livestream Q&A for students on Wednesday November 20th. You can access it here, subscribe to the channel to get your reminder.htt…

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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 count…

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 fina…

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 in…

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 …

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 contraste…

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 …

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 na…

1 year, 5 months ago

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AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 6

This is part six of the Explaining History study course based on the AQA A level history module Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53.

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1 year, 5 months ago

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Trump and the crisis of the Democrat Party

Why has Donald Trump won an enormous victory not just amongst the electoral college votes but the popular vote too? For decades both parties have pur…

1 year, 5 months ago

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