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The Amritsar Massacre
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, British anxieties over revolutionary tensions in India were high. The action of a lone British gen…
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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 …
11 years, 1 month ago
The Congress of Berlin
In 1878 tensions over the Balkans were close to exploding into a major European war. German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck held a conference in Berlin …
11 years, 1 month ago
The Frankfurt School
In 1922, during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic a social research institute was established in Frankfurt. It was set up by Marxist i…
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The Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe 1944-50
One of the biggest forced movements of populations in human history occurred in the final months of the Second World War and long into the post war e…
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Wilson, Roosevelt and the USSR
Democrat presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt hoped the USSR could become a key part of the post war worlds they were involved in develop…
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The Easter Rising 1916
At the start of the First World War the threat of civil war in Ireland between home rule nationalists and protestant unionists in the north began to …
11 years, 2 months ago
Women's Political Publishing 1850-1918
In the second half of the 19th Century, the development of a new and diverse range of magazines, leaflets and books written by educated and wealthy V…
11 years, 2 months ago
The Liberal Government and the First World War
In the first two years of the First World War, British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was a distant and detached character, leaving major decisions t…
11 years, 2 months ago
The Red Summer 1919
In 1919 America experienced a post war explosion of racial violence. Black communities in over 30 cities across the USA were attacked by mobs, angry …
11 years, 2 months ago