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Britain's Forgotten Depression 1920-21
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, hopes of an economic boom in Britain were shortlived. Instead, the country was plunged into econom…
8 years, 11 months ago
Book Review: Gotham Rising
This Wednesday's review is Gotham Rising, a cultural history of New York in the 1930s, by Jules Stewart
Explaining History helps you understand the 2…
8 years, 11 months ago
Mao and the Red Guards: 1966.
In 1966, Mao returned from four years in the political wilderness to enact the Cultural Revolution, inspiring millions of young people to carry out …
8 years, 11 months ago
Palestine, India and Britain: Two partitions and the end of empire
Exhausted by the Second World War, Britain was desperate to hold on to influence in the Middle East and yet policy makers were anxious to withdraw fr…
8 years, 11 months ago
Book Review: Black Power and the American People
This week's book review is an excellent and incisive analysis of the cultural history of black power in America by Rafael Torrubia.
Explaining Histor…
8 years, 11 months ago
Public Opinion and International Relations 1890-1914
In the decades before the First World War, the role that public opinion and the press in forming the foreign policy of European powers became conside…
8 years, 11 months ago
Book Review: Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner
The monthly book review returns, with a review of Battles for Freedom - the essays of Eric Foner for the Nation magazine 1977-2015
Explaining History…
8 years, 11 months ago
1979 and the birth of neoliberalism
In the late 1970s, after a decade of economic stagnation, western economies, accompanied by China, began the first steps towards the abandonment of t…
8 years, 11 months ago
IG Farben and the Holocaust
In 1947 the last of the Nuremberg trials began. The accused were German industrialists from the chemicals cartel IG Farben. Prosecutors charged them …
9 years ago
War and British National Identity in the 20th Century
The development of British national identity in the 20th Century is intimately connected with conflict. War has provided a unifying force that has he…
9 years ago