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Britain's media power and broken politics: In conversation with Mic Wright
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, I speak with journalist and media critic Mic Wright about the power of Britain's media and its dis…
5 years, 2 months ago
The origins of the Iran Contra Scandal 1979-82
In the last years of Jimmy Carter's presidency, the ruthless Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua was overthrown by the Sandinista revolutionaries, a coa…
5 years, 2 months ago
British Anti Fascism 192936
By the mid 1930s a widespread working class anti fascist movement was established in Britain, in response to the development of the British Union of …
5 years, 2 months ago
Austria, Germany and the July Crisis 1914
In 191, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Belgrade, the Austrian government sent a list of demands to Se…
5 years, 2 months ago
Poverty, caste and recruitment to the Indian Army during World War Two
During the Second World War the imperial government of India, ruled by Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was desperate for manpower and the trad…
5 years, 2 months ago
France, Britain and the road to Suez 1952-56
In the mid 1950s, Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet, Britain and France's respective prime ministers initially showed little determination to overthrow Col…
5 years, 2 months ago
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…
5 years, 2 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 s…
5 years, 2 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 uni…
5 years, 3 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 ma…
5 years, 3 months ago