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The British Counter-culture in the 1960s
By 1968 counter cultural movements existed across the world. This podcast explores the British context and the art house and avant garde scene that s…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Nazi Party and German Monopoly Capitalism
The extent to which Hitler coopted and controlled Germany's industrialists has been a topic of fierce debate. The complicity of Krupp and IG Farben w…
7 years, 7 months ago
French national pride and empire: 1944
The devastating humiliation of defeat and occupation during the Second World War meant that for the new Gaullist Fourth Republic, regaining world sta…
7 years, 7 months ago
Hunger and the Russian Revolution - 1917
The overwhelming pressures that the First World War placed on Russia resulted in chaos to the empire's food economy. Russia had plentiful food suppli…
7 years, 8 months ago
Saving the Jews of Budapest
When the Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944 and began mass deportations to Auschwitz, two unlikely saviours, a diplomat from Franco's Spain and a busines…
7 years, 8 months ago
Gandhi, Nehru and wartime crisis - 1940
When the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, declared war on India's behalf unilaterally there was considerable anger. This was replaced by concern an…
7 years, 8 months ago
Nixon, returning POWs and the legacy of Vietnam
At the start of his second term in office Nixon saw an opportunity in the return of American POWs in Vietnam to present a positive and patriotic narr…
7 years, 8 months ago
British working class identity, tv and affluence 1954 -1964
The dramatic increase in standards of living for British working class people from the mid 1950s onwards was accompanied by anxieties that an entire …
7 years, 8 months ago
Creating the SS Death's Head Division
Comprised mainly of teenagers in the late 1930s, the Death's Head Division guarded the camps and brutalised prisoners, but many believed they had bee…
7 years, 8 months ago
Defending Afghanistan 1937-1940
For a century Afghanistan had been a theatre for the 'great game' of espionage between the British and Russian empires, but on the eve of the Second …
7 years, 8 months ago