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The end of Globalisation
In a new article for the London Review of Books, economic historian Adam Tooze argues that the era of globalisation that existed up to the great fina…
1 year, 5 months ago
American workers in Stalin's Russia
During the 1930s over 100,000 American workers left the USA and crossed the Atlantic to the USSR. There they worked in automobile plants and other in…
1 year, 6 months ago
Britain and the myth of the Special Relationship
The British political class has clung on to a fantasy of its own relevance in Washington DC for decades. The special relationship that British Prime …
1 year, 6 months ago
Approaches to history Part Two: Teleology and the Middle Ages
In this second episode of our new Approaches to History series, we begin to explore how history was written in the Middle Ages and how that contraste…
1 year, 6 months ago
Britain's withdrawal from Palestine: 1944-48
In 1948, the British finally ended their mandate government over Palestine. As they withdrew a vicious civil war between Jewish and Arab communities …
1 year, 6 months ago
Populism and the crisis of whiteness
In today's episode, as much of the world still pieces through the results of the election, we explore one of the many explanations for the rise of na…
1 year, 6 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 6
This is part six of the Explaining History study course based on the AQA A level history module Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53.
In this e…
1 year, 6 months ago
Trump and the crisis of the Democrat Party
Why has Donald Trump won an enormous victory not just amongst the electoral college votes but the popular vote too? For decades both parties have pur…
1 year, 6 months ago
Trumpism and the crisis of neoliberalism
In anticipation of today's vote, the Explaining History Podcast dissects the road to Trumpism, how four decades of neoliberal economics led to the cu…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Legacy of the First World War
In the late summer of 1914 a war began that was largely unexpected, unwanted and which lasted for four years, destroying the European civilisation th…
1 year, 6 months ago