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Last flight out of Saigon - a story from the last days of the Vietnam War
Fifty years ago, the longest imperial war of the 20th Century ended with the fall of Saigon and the victory of the North Vietnamese in the reunificat…
1 year ago
China's Neoliberal Turn 1978-89
How did China embrace its own hybrid form of market capitalism with state control after the death of Mao in 1976? How did China avoid the economic sh…
1 year, 1 month ago
Tariffs, Brexit and the great reorientation
Britain's political class have realised that the writing is on the wall for them in the past week as Trump's tariffs as imposed. This podcast explore…
1 year, 1 month ago
Changing interpretations on the Nation of Islam
Scholarship of the Black Power Movement in general and the Nation of Islam in particular has been harder to accumulate than that on the main Civil Ri…
1 year, 1 month ago
The decline of US Liberal Internationalism
Since the beginning of the 21st Century, American internationalism has been in crisis and Trump's recent verbal and economic threats towards allies h…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hitler's resource war in Russia - 1941
In June 1941 Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the USSR, they saw the conquest of the country, the eradication of its leadership and the starvation…
1 year, 2 months ago
Humans: A Monstrous History
In this episode of The Explaining History Podcast we were fortunate enough to speak with Dr Surekha Davies, historian of art, science and ideas, whos…
1 year, 2 months ago
Romania in 1918
Romania was, in territorial terms, one of the unlikely beneficiaries of the Paris Peace Conference. It acquired land from the disintegrated Austro Hu…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nazi economic plunder of western Europe PT2
When Europe was rapidly subjugated by the Nazi regime, unprecedented economic opportunities arose and these were exploited by Germany's great industr…
1 year, 2 months ago
Zelenskyy and the US Empire
In the past 24 hours there has been further indication that an immense transition in international relations is under way, far more significant that …
1 year, 2 months ago