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Crisis and Identity: Russian Jews in the 19th Century
Episode Summary:
In this episode of Explaining History, Nick delves into Jonathan Frankel's seminal work, Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews. We exp…
4 months ago
The Russian General Staff 1905-14
In this episode of Explaining History, Nick delves into the institutional failures of the Imperial Russian Army in the critical decade before World W…
4 months ago
War Correspondents and Vietnam: Part Two
Episode Summary:
In this episode of Explaining History, Nick returns to Philip Knightley's seminal work, The First Casualty, to examine how British an…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Forgotten Revolution: Venezuela’s Democratic Spring of 1945
In 2025, Venezuela is once again in the crosshairs of US foreign policy, facing the threat of military intervention and heightened sanctions from a n…
4 months, 1 week ago
Your Party and the fragmented British Left in 2025
In this episode of Explaining History, Nick takes a hard look at the state of the British Left in late 2025. With the Starmer government firmly entre…
4 months, 1 week ago
Code Breaking: From Bletchley Park to the Cold War
In this episode of Explaining History, we sit down with author Maggie Ritchie to discuss her latest novel, White Raven. We explore the remarkable tru…
4 months, 1 week ago
Explaining History: The End of the Western World Order?
Is the era of Western global dominance coming to an end? This episode explores the profound decline of Western, and particularly American, "hard" and…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The RAF and the origins of mass bombing 1939-40
From Restraint to Ruin - The Birth of the Bombing War
At the dawn of World War II in 1939, a fragile consensus existed among the warring powers. Spurr…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
America and China in 2025
Explaining History Podcast: 2025 in Review - The Year the Tech War Was Lost
As 2025 draws to a close, we reflect on a pivotal year that historians may…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Live Aid, famine, debt and activism: A four decade struggle for justice
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast, host Nick Shepley is joined by veteran journalist and author Paul Vallely to explore the definitiv…
5 months ago