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1989: The year of global transformation
In 1989 the Cold War came to an unanticipated and unexpectedly peaceful end, the wars that both sides imagined would happen between the USSR and the …
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Approaches to history Part One: Herodotus, the first historian
What are we doing when we write or think about history? What is it that historians do and when did they start doing it? We're taking a new direction …
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China, Japan and the legacy of the Nanjing Massacre
Between December 1937 and January 1938 on of the great crimes of Japan's war against China occurred at the Chinese capital of Nanjing. Determined to …
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AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 5
After February 1917 the Provisional Government had a weak grasp on power, a fact that was exploited by the Bolsheviks in order to seize power in Octo…
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The New Deal and post war anti communism
In the aftermath of the Second World War the New Deal came under a sustained assault by a newly resurgent Republican Party that used the threat of an…
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The Gulag Revolts 1953
In the early 1950s there was an unprecedented level of political organisation in the Gulag system amongst prisoners who were able to find out about t…
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Hitler, Speer and Nazi Germany's armaments crisis 1942
By early 1942 Nazi Germany was facing a moment of crisis when it came to the production of munitions and other equipment. The inherent chaos of the r…
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Austerity Britain 1931-2024
Britain is about to experience another half decade of austerity as government budgets for social welfare are slashed. By the time the next general el…
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Chamberlain's Britain - 1937
Neville Chamberlain is chiefly remembered for his failed shuttle diplomacy with Hitler in 1938, but there is of course more to his time in office tha…
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AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 4
By March 1917 a new system of dual power had established itself in the capital city Petrograd. The Provisional Government, a group comprised of the T…
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