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The fall of communism: An oral history
Oral histories can be very revealing in understanding the beliefs and feelings that people had in particular historical moments. In Svetlana Alexeivi…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Colonial wealth transfers: A New Analysis
Question:What would have happened to Europe in the past two and a half centuries if it hadn't plundered the global south? What would have happened if…
11 months ago
Neoliberalism and the European Economic Community
The post war neoliberals were divided over the European Economic Community, some viewing it as a protected enclave of the world economy that would ho…
11 months ago
Trump, Musk and the end of American Empire
All American presidents since 1945 have been managers of the USA's global economic empire, Trump notionally fulfils the same role but has little or n…
11 months ago
The Black American Experience in World War Two
During the Second World War the immense needs for labour and military manpower transformed American society and gave Black Americans an historic oppo…
11 months ago
Suffrage, Medicine and Murder
In the 1850s a medical revolution was beginning with the discovery of anaesthesia and a political and social revolution was still in its infancy in t…
11 months ago
Conflicted Loyalties: Minority voices in wartime Britain and America
What did Irish Americans make of Roosevelt's wartime pact with Churchill? What did Polish Americans make of his alliance with Stalin? In this podcast…
11 months, 1 week ago
The political right and 'anti wokeness'
Wokeness and anti wokeness are inventions of the political right on both sides of the Atlantic. They are confected ideas that are pushed by elite thi…
11 months, 1 week ago
From F. Scott Fitzgerald to pulp detective novels - 1925 America's greatest literary year
A century ago, America was the literary and intellectual powerhouse of the world. Black writers defined the black experience in the Harlem Renaissanc…
11 months, 1 week ago
Britain, France and the creation of Iraq 1919-21
When the mandate system was created at the Paris Peace Conference, it became a powerful tool for the British and French to carve up the Middle East a…
11 months, 1 week ago