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Britain, Germany and the Blitz
By the start of the blitz Britain didn't have enough anti aircraft guns, despite half a decade anticipating mass bombing as a means of war. Germany w…
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VE Day : London 1945
What was it like to experience the end of the Second World War in London, 80 years ago today? We read David Kynaston's Austerity Britain to find out …
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Nazi wartime labour shortages
At the height of the Third Reich's war production there were nearly five million additional German and foreign workers in the war economy. Despite th…
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Social change in American post war suburbia
What did the good life look like in 1945? Or more to the point, what did the good life look like to white working and middle class inner city familie…
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The German invasion of Belgium: 1914
In the first weeks of the outbreak of the First World War, the outdated Schlieffen Plan required the German Army to rapidly cross Belgium to attack n…
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The historiography of Malcolm X
The way in which Malcolm X and the Black Power movement has been interpreted and understood over time has changed as academics grappled with his lega…
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America's post war rise and fall
In the aftermath of the Second World War, America had half the world's wealth and a quarter of its GDP. By the 1970s its position as an economic powe…
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Britain in an age of crisis 2001-2025
The period of the last 25 years in Britain has been one of continual crisis and disaster, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to Brexit and cov…
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A Chinese Century?
America's de-industrialisation, offshoring, its battle to maintain dollar supremacy whilst also restoring itself to being a net exporter have led to …
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Hollywood, witch hunts and class struggle in LA
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we speak with the writer Dennis Broe whose new book The Dark Ages, explores the second Hollywood an…
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