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Franco's march on Madrid: 1936
As fascist armies raced across Spain to seize the capital they committed horrific war crimes against Spanish workers and peasants. Madrid braced itse…
8 years, 7 months ago
The CIA and early anti Soviet Operations
The development of the CIA by 1949 into a well funded unaccountable agency with the scope for paramilitary operations against the USSR, meant that po…
8 years, 7 months ago
Emerging Nations and the Paris Peace Conference
Peacemakers at the Paris Peace Conference attempted to build new nation states out of the chaos of four collapsed empires. However, events on the gro…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Office of the Fuhrer
Hitler's capture of Germany's Government saw the introduction of Nazi ideas that sought to abolish the normal functioning of constitutional systems o…
8 years, 7 months ago
An appeal to listeners on the thorny issue of hate speech
Hi everyone, I'm inviting all listeners to join with me to debate about online hate speech which is creeping into the various Explaining History plat…
8 years, 7 months ago
Slavery, Cotton and Capitalism
In Sven Beckert's book Empire of Cotton, he discusses the development of modern capitalism's first industry (and empire), that of global cotton. The …
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The Supreme Council of the Paris Peace Conference 1919
When the delegates of the Paris Peace Conference met in 1919 a council of ten from the five dominant victorious powers formed into the Supreme Counci…
8 years, 7 months ago
Racism and Black Americans 1945-48
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, racism and discrimination existed in different forms in both northern and southern states, with a…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Arabs and the Palestine Mandate
The British mandate in Palestine and Jewish mass immigration placed immense economic pressure on the indigenous Arab peoples. Land ownership became a…
8 years, 7 months ago
Japan and the First World War
The outbreak of hostilities in Europe had global consequences and Japan, allied to Britain saw its chance to expand its power in China at the expense…
8 years, 7 months ago