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Getting Churchill wrong and the problem of fake history - Explaining History in conversation with Otto English
History as entertainment has shaped, for many, the understanding of the past. Mythologisation of key moments of the past crafts powerful and often mi…
4 years, 10 months ago
1937 - The Year of the Great Terror (Part One)
Throughout the 1930s the forces that led to a year of terror in 1937 had been gradually developing, from the trials of bourgeois specialists in the19…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Motherland Calls - the Soviet Union's Second World War memorials
In present day Volgograd, one of the largest Second World War memorials in the world stands. The city, once known as Stalingrad, is home the gigantic…
4 years, 10 months ago
Maoism, Vietnam and the Domino Theory
John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson both saw Vietnam as the vital frontline in America's struggle against communism, but it was Chinese, as opposed to …
4 years, 11 months ago
Neville Chamberlain's diplomatic and strategic world view - 1937
When Neville Chamberlain succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937 he inherited a highly precarious world situation. His predecessor was ex…
4 years, 11 months ago
Poujade and French Postwar Fascism 1945-53
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the French Fourth Republic commenced a purge of former members of the wartime Vichy regime that h…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Indian Army Officer Corps in World War Two
The British hold over the Indian Army was born of strategic calculations; the army was the most powerful weapon in Asia at Britain's disposal, and it…
4 years, 11 months ago
Britain, France and the Middle East - 1956
During the 1950s, Britain, France the USA and the USSR all conducted great power politics and diplomacy in the Middle East, competing to court and un…
5 years ago
The Stalinist Showtrials on 1936-7
There are numerous competing histooriographies of the Stalinist terror, which peaked in 1937. The pretext of the assassination of Kirov, that Stalin …
5 years ago
American Cold War Liberals and the McCarthyite era 1948-57
Anti communism became a defining aspect of American politics during the 1940s and 1950s, not just for the right wing of the Republican Party, but als…
5 years ago