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Thatcherism 1979-2021
Margaret Thatcher was deposed by her party in 1990, but the legacy of her ideas in some form lingers on. The Tory Party itself has abandoned any pret…
5 years ago
Germany's air war over the Netherlands and France: 1940
In the first year of the war, from September 1939 to September 1940, Germany's military forces fought four seperate European campaigns (Poland, Scand…
5 years ago
France, De Gaulle and post war anti fascism 1945-51
The Second World War was a national humiliation for France, enduring occupation, collaboration with the Nazis and Vichy complicity in the Holocaust. …
5 years, 1 month ago
Lebensraum, Genocide and Nazi Colonial Utopias 1941-45
The conquest of the Soviet Union was an idea that had been at the forefront of HItler's thoughts since the 1920s. Exploiting the resources of Russia …
5 years, 1 month ago
Soviet Citizens and the start of the Great Terror- 1937
In 1937 many Soviet citizens had traumatic memories of collectivisation, anti Kulak campaigns and famine from the period 1928-33. Many could sense th…
5 years, 1 month ago
Schlieffen, Moltke and German strategy 1914
In the decade before the FIrst World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary put little effort in to coordinating their military strategies in the event of …
5 years, 2 months ago
Eisenhower, Korea and the politics of 1950s America
The landslide victory for Eisenhower and the Republican Party in the 1952 Presidential Election showed Democrats that a right of centre, socially con…
5 years, 2 months ago
Problematic Histories: Teaching Civil Rights in the UK and the BLM moment
History teaching is within the confines of a curriculum and under the pressure of examinations is riven with unfortunate compromises and unintended o…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Eighth Airforce over Germany - Explaining History in conversation with David Dean Barrett
In early 1942 the American Eighth Air Force existed on paper only. Within twelve months it was a formidable fighting force in daylight raids over Ger…
5 years, 2 months ago
Britain, France and the Mandate System 191-19
During the First World War, much of the fighting occurred in colonial Africa, which in 1918, the victorious powers believed could not rule itself. Pr…
5 years, 2 months ago