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The Battle of Britain Part Two
Despite Herman Goering's estimates that the RAF would be defeated in under a month, a long battle of attrition raged throughout August and September …
8 years, 8 months ago
Black Americans and Civil Rights in 1945
The Second World War had a dramatic impact on the civil rights struggle, but as a new era in the battle for equality and justice for Black Americans …
8 years, 8 months ago
The overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the Ottoman Empire 1909
In the space of a year the Ottoman Empire was convulsed by two revolutions and a violent civil war between secular modernisers and Islamic traditiona…
8 years, 8 months ago
Rethinking Stalin's Gulags
Some fresh perspectives on Stalin's labour camps, revising Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archepelago
Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century …
8 years, 8 months ago
Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain Part One
Following the devastating defeat of France, Hitler turned his eyes to Britain, the last obstacle in his conquest of the west. Poor planning and a fai…
8 years, 8 months ago
Adenauer, Schumacher and West German De-Nazification: 1949
Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of West Germany attempted to suppress the memory of the Holocaust in the new republic. His political opponent, …
8 years, 8 months ago
The Young Turk Revolt 1908
After decades of decline and gradual European encroachment into the Ottoman Empire, disaffected and angry army officers staged a revolt in 1908, forc…
8 years, 8 months ago
Sacco and Vanzetti Part Two
The second part of the discussion on Sacco and Vanzetti, based on Eric Foner's 1977 essay 'The Men and the Symbols'
Explaining History helps you unde…
8 years, 8 months ago
LLoyd George and the British Empire delegation in Paris 1919
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George led the British delegation and also those of the British empire dominions who had fought in the First World…
8 years, 8 months ago
Britain, America and the aftermath of Dunkirk
Following the military disaster of the fall of France and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France, Churchill waited for Hitler'…
8 years, 8 months ago