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A revisionist approach to the U-Boat War 1939-45
A popular view of the war at sea is that of Britain pushed right to the edge, mounting shipping losses leading to fears of starvation in Britain and …
3 years, 4 months ago
Nationalism and identity in the Austro Hungarian Army 1914
Why did the patchwork Habsburg empire collapse in 1918? The pressures of war and the competing identities and loyalties of the men that fought in the…
3 years, 4 months ago
The afterlife of Leon Trotsky's politics 1940-1982
When Leon Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader in 1940, his ideas lived on. The Trotskyist Fourth International and the American Sociali…
3 years, 4 months ago
Explaining History Study Extra: Lenin's Death and its consequences
In this episode of the Explaining History Study Extra, we explore Lenin's death and the consequences for the power struggle to succeed him. We examin…
3 years, 4 months ago
Churchill, Asquith and Lloyd George - 1916
By 1916 Winston Churchill's wartime reputation was in tatters after the disaster of the Dardanelles Campaign. His self belief was his most powerful a…
3 years, 5 months ago
Explaining History Study Extra: Social division and the origins of Italian fascism
Episode 1
This is the first Explaining History study extra recording for students. In this podcast we hear about the origins of Italian fascism and the experie…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sir Mark Sykes and the Eastern Question - 1915
In the second year of the Great War, the British began to consider the future of the Middle East once the Ottoman Empire had been defeated. The Ottom…
3 years, 5 months ago
Reflections on Neoliberalism in Britain
Neoliberalism in Britain has shaped the political, economic and social fabric of the nation in its entirety for almost half a century. As a cluster o…
3 years, 5 months ago
Revolutionary Violence in Madrid in 1936
After the first attempt at a national uprising by the fascist generals in Spain ended in failure, Madrid became a dangerous and violent city dominate…
3 years, 6 months ago
East German anti Semitism
The surviving Jews who became citizens of East Germany faced a precarious existence when the GDR was established. Not only was Stalin, the Soviet dic…
3 years, 6 months ago