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The ethnic cleansing of German civilians in Eastern Europe: 1945
At the allied wartime conferences it was agreed by the big three that the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians could remove German civilians who had occupied lands now in newly recognised nation states, in s…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Anti Communism in Europe 1917-21
In the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution, European governments looked nervously at the poor and dispossessed, the peasants, workers and soldiers whose conditions were frequently intolerab…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Britain's miners and the causes of the General Strike 1918-26
In the half decade after the end of the First World War, the size and the militancy of the trade union movement was at its height and the largest union was the Miner's Federation of Great Britain. Th…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
France and the Syrian uprising 1925
When Britain, France and Russia secretly planned to carve up the Ottoman Empire in 1915, France made a claim on Ottoman Syria and acquired it as a mandate during the Paris Peace Conference. Brutality…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
The origins of the Soviet camps 1917-21
Following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, class based terror and repression of social and political enemies became central to the party's attempts to establish itself. In addition to …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Britain, France, Israel and the Suez conspiracy 1956
In 1956 the British Government, led by Anthony Eden, embarked on a disastrous military adventure with France and Israel that divided the country, split both political parties and was conducted despit…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Anti Slav hysteria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire - July 1914
Following the shock of the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Vienna, Sarajevo, and other parts of the German and non German speaking empire saw outbreaks of public anger and mou…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Poison gas and its long term impact on the 20th Century
By the end of the First World War, the British, French and American Armies were using gas more effectively than Germany, and the German Army's ability to resist gas attacks was crumbling. After the w…
Published on 5 years ago
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Benn and Great Britain: 1973 - 1983
In the 1970s and 1980s two political figures came to define the polarisation of British politics and society and the end of political consensus between the Conservative and Labour Parties. This podca…
Published on 5 years ago
Rumours, letters and humour in Stalinist Russia 1928-38
In all totalitarian societies, individuals instinctively find ways of navigating and interacting with a repressive state. In the USSR, rumours, jokes and anonymous letters to the authorities, were of…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago