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Calcutta and the Indian Partition 1946
In 1946, following the formation of a Hindu dominated transitional government in India, inter ethnic violence broke out in Calcutta. Hindus and Musli…
9 years, 4 months ago
Britain's changing wartime relationship with its colonies
Throughout the Second World War, Britain saw its colonies as sources of available manpower, food and finance. As Britain's fortunes changed throughou…
9 years, 5 months ago
Black Radical Politics in Inter War Harlem
Harlem was the epicentre of black cultural and intellectual life in the inter war decades. Competing radical nationalist and communist parties strugg…
9 years, 5 months ago
Spain, Stalin and European Communist Parties in the 1930s
After 1936 the Spanish Civil War became the focal issue for Europe's socialist and communist parties. The rise of Hitler to power had made anti fasci…
9 years, 6 months ago
Post War British Sexual Politics 1945-1971
Did Britain have a sexual revolution in the 1960s? All indications suggest that momentous change occurred in attitudes to pregnancy, marriage, divorc…
9 years, 6 months ago
Tito and Yugoslavia in 1945
At the end of the Second World War, intense ethnic hatreds had been reawoken in Yugoslavia and Josef Tito's victorious communist partisans took advan…
9 years, 7 months ago
Stalin, showtrials and terror 1936-38
In the second half of the 1930s, after explosive economic growth during the five year plans the USSR was convulsed by murderous political violence. T…
9 years, 7 months ago
Engels and the Condition of the Working Class in England
In 1845, at the height of Britain's industrial revolution, Friedrich Engels, the son of a German cotton industrialist came to live in Manchester. His…
9 years, 7 months ago
Churchill and the Bombing of Bulgaria 1941-44
In the middle years of the Second World War, Bulgaria became a target for repeated and heavy RAF and USAAF bombing raids. Bulgaria's alliance with Ge…
9 years, 8 months ago
Railways, Revolution and Sun Yat Sen: 1860-1925
In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, railways and steam boats became tools for European powers to colonially exploit a weakened China. Followin…
9 years, 8 months ago