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Explaining History Study Extra: Lenin's Death and its consequences
In this episode of the Explaining History Study Extra, we explore Lenin's death and the consequences for the power struggle to succeed him. We examin…
3 years, 5 months ago
Churchill, Asquith and Lloyd George - 1916
By 1916 Winston Churchill's wartime reputation was in tatters after the disaster of the Dardanelles Campaign. His self belief was his most powerful a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Explaining History Study Extra: Social division and the origins of Italian fascism
Episode 1
This is the first Explaining History study extra recording for students. In this podcast we hear about the origins of Italian fascism and the experie…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sir Mark Sykes and the Eastern Question - 1915
In the second year of the Great War, the British began to consider the future of the Middle East once the Ottoman Empire had been defeated. The Ottom…
3 years, 6 months ago
Reflections on Neoliberalism in Britain
Neoliberalism in Britain has shaped the political, economic and social fabric of the nation in its entirety for almost half a century. As a cluster o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Revolutionary Violence in Madrid in 1936
After the first attempt at a national uprising by the fascist generals in Spain ended in failure, Madrid became a dangerous and violent city dominate…
3 years, 7 months ago
East German anti Semitism
The surviving Jews who became citizens of East Germany faced a precarious existence when the GDR was established. Not only was Stalin, the Soviet dic…
3 years, 7 months ago
Britain's post war strategic questions
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the economic strains on Britain after six years of conflict were immense, but Britain's international commi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tenth Anniversary Special - Myths of the Blitz
This is the tenth anniversary episode of the Explaining History Podcast, thankyou to everyone who has listened to my lo-fi ramblings over the years, …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Croat Spring 1971
Yugoslavia, a state created in 1919 and recreated from the ashes of war once again in 1945 was a federation of balkan nationalities held together aft…
3 years, 8 months ago