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The Butler Education Act 1944
In the last years of the Second World War, a new education act designed to create a school system for post war Britain was established. It was instru…
8 years, 1 month ago
Book Review: Babuska's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps by Marcel Krueger
A review of Babushka's Journey and a discussion of the field of Gulag memoir literature (listen to the end for details on how to get your free copy).…
8 years, 2 months ago
Nixon, Reagan and the crisis years of the 1970s
How did the decline of Richard Nixon and the humiliations heaped upon America in the 1970s lead to the rise in popularity of a once marginal Republic…
8 years, 2 months ago
Stalinist secrecy and paranoia 1928-38
The internal logic of Stalinism was based around perceived threats, class enemies, overseas conspiracies and an all pervading secrecy.
Explaining His…
8 years, 2 months ago
War Correspondents and Operation Barbarossa 1941
Hitler's invasion of the USSR was the largest land invasion in history, but it was the most under reported theatre of fighting in the entire war. Thi…
8 years, 2 months ago
Roosevelt, Churchill and Lend Lease
Following Roosevelt's election victory in November 1940, the news that Britain faced certain bankruptcy in dollar terms presented the president with …
8 years, 2 months ago
Truman and the Taft Hartley Act 1947
This is the second podcast on labour relations and the Truman Presidency. In 1947, Congress took up the baton of anti union legislation, just as the …
8 years, 2 months ago
Barbarossa Part Three: The USSR and the Invasion
This is the third part of a series on Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. This podcast focuses on the views and beliefs of a…
8 years, 3 months ago
American Volunteers and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
When US volunteers from the International Brigade returned to America after two years of bloodshed and slaughter in Spain, they received a frosty wel…
8 years, 3 months ago
Woodrow Wilson and the founding of the League of Nations
In the aftermath of the First World War, utopian visions of a future world without war informed a generation of diplomats, politicians and peace make…
8 years, 3 months ago