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20th Century Dictators
Hi everyone and welcome back after the Explaining History summer recess. In this extended episode I interview LBC presenter and author Iain Dale whos…
1 year, 7 months ago
Men At War - Masculinity, Sexuality and Memory 1939-45
In this fascinating conversation with writer Luke Turner, we explore the emotional and intimate lives of men who fought in the Second World War. Luke…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Fall of Civilisations
In this wide ranging conversation with historian and podcaster Paul Cooper, we explore the themes in his new book The Fall of Civilisations. Paul has…
1 year, 8 months ago
Westlessness: The changing power of the west in the 21st Century
The western world fought for its survival in the 20th Century and won the three great historical challenges it faced, the first and second world wars…
1 year, 9 months ago
SAS warfare, survival and resistance 1942-44
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we hear from Gerald Hough, whose new book Desert Raids with the SAS recounts the story of his fathe…
1 year, 9 months ago
French Counter Insurgency in Algeria
In today's episode of the Explaining History podcast, we hear from Terence Peterson author of Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern…
1 year, 9 months ago
William Freeman and America's first profit driven prisons
In the first half of the 19th Century profit driven prisons were established in America's northern states, using extreme brutality and conditions tha…
1 year, 9 months ago
From biplanes to the jet age - three decades in the RAF
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast, we hear from Mark Aedy, whose father Ken served as a bomber pilot during the Second World War. Tra…
1 year, 10 months ago
Music and Marxism - understanding pop from a materialist and class analysis
In this week's episode we hear from writer Toby Manning whose new book, Mixing Pop and Politics explores a Marxist history of popular music and exami…
1 year, 10 months ago
South Africa's Democracy: 30 Years On
Peter Hain was, along with his family, forced to flee South Africa in the late 1960s, at the height of the Apartheid regime's war against its opponen…
1 year, 10 months ago