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140 Days to Hiroshima: Explaining History Interview with David Barrett
This special episode of the Explaining History Podcast features historian David Barrett, whose new book 140 Days to Hiroshima examines the decision m…
5 years, 11 months ago
China's Neoliberal Turn - 1978
In the late 1970s, as Britain, America and other wealthy countries were developing free market solutions to the problems of inflation and low growth,…
5 years, 11 months ago
France, China and Vietnam 1949-51
By 1949 the development of a communist state in China radically changed the fortunes of France in Vietnam, a shift in dynamics that made the war for …
6 years ago
The aftermath of the fall of the Philippines: May 1942
By the summer of 1942 the Japanese military was drunk on the victories it had achieved in the previous six months of war. It had over run Singapore, …
6 years ago
Poison gas on the Western Front - 1915-18
Between 1915 and 1918 all sides in the First World War used poison gas against one another, but it was Germany that was the biggest pioneer of battle…
6 years ago
Leninism and the Communist Party of Great Britain - 1921
The Communist Party of Great Britain was established in 1920 and was heavily influenced by Comintern, the Communist International organisation in Mos…
6 years ago
The Continuity of Italian fascism after 1945 (Part four)
Fascist bombing campaigns and planned coups, leading up to a massacre in Bologna in 1980 brought the threat of splinter group fascism to the Italian …
6 years, 1 month ago
The post war decades and the neoliberal turn
In the aftermath of the Second World War a set of global institutions allied with a social democratic shift in several leading world economies to cre…
6 years, 1 month ago
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part three)
In the 1960s, splinter groups from the right wing Italian Social Movement began to believe that only a military coup in Italy could save the country …
6 years, 1 month ago
Venizelos, Lloyd George and the Greek annexation of Smyrna: May 1919
As the allied powers deliberated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, David Lloyd George encouraged the Greek prime minister Venizelos to seize the…
6 years, 2 months ago