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The Fall of Budapest
In January 1945 the city of Budapest was surrounded by the Red Army and Hitler's occupying forces made a desperate and futile last stand. The siege o…
9 years, 11 months ago
Poland, Palestine and Zionism
In the second half of the 1930s the Polish Government abandoned its previously liberal policies towards Poland's large Jewish population and instead…
9 years, 11 months ago
The Counterculture and the 1960s
In the 1960s a diverse movement of protest and activism closely associated (but not limited to) the hippy movement developed in the USA. The politici…
10 years ago
Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation
When Leonid Brezhnev came to power in 1964 he was determined to undo many of the liberalising reforms of his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev. However, …
10 years ago
John Maynard Keynes and the American Loan
At the end of the Second World War, the USA reshaped the world economy in its own interests. The acute economic problems facing great Britain due to …
10 years ago
Rudolf Hoess
When Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz between 1940 and 1943 was tried for his crimes in 1947 he was open and revealing about the process of …
10 years, 1 month ago
Lawrence of Arabia
In 1916 a British officer, Thomas Edward Lawrence and an Arab prince, Feisal of Mecca led a guerrilla army of Bedouin against the Ottoman Empire in A…
10 years, 1 month ago
American Suburbia and Segregation
In the post war decades the dream of new affordable housing came true for millions of white Americans. Black, Latino, Jewish and other ethnic minorit…
10 years, 1 month ago
Britain's Role in Vietnam 1945
At the end of the Second World War, the British Army marched into the French colony of Indochina, which had been occupied by Japan for the previous f…
10 years, 2 months ago
Women's political publishing 1850-1918
In the second half of the 19th Century a quiet publishing revolution was taking place. Victorian ladies with education and wealth were able to produc…
10 years, 2 months ago