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The Battle of Amiens, 1918
Following the failure of Germany's last bid to defeat Britain, France and America in the west, a counter offensive took advantage of the Kaiser Army'…
9 years, 3 months ago
Hitler and the Catholic Church 1933-37
In 1933, as Hitler consolidated his power, he signed an agreement or 'concordat' with the Catholic Church, removing the power of the Papacy from Germ…
9 years, 4 months ago
Radical Politics and British Pop Music 1976-87
For the first time in its history, British popular music became radically politicised in the mid 1970s as a result of the rise of far right racist gr…
9 years, 4 months ago
From Tito to Milosevic - the breakup of Yugoslavia
What factors led to the destruction of Yugoslavia and the death of 140,000 people over a decade? This podcast examines the mounting tensions that com…
9 years, 4 months ago
Nixon, Reagan and the war on drugs 1971-1989
By the late 1960s anxieties over rapid social change and racial tensions promoted a conservative backlash against the perceived permissiveness of the…
9 years, 5 months ago
Class Warfare in Spain 1918-1931
In the decade and a half before the Spanish Civil War, a bitterly divided society existed in constant conflict. Wealthy landowners and industrialists…
9 years, 5 months ago
Calcutta and the Indian Partition 1946
In 1946, following the formation of a Hindu dominated transitional government in India, inter ethnic violence broke out in Calcutta. Hindus and Musli…
9 years, 5 months ago
Britain's changing wartime relationship with its colonies
Throughout the Second World War, Britain saw its colonies as sources of available manpower, food and finance. As Britain's fortunes changed throughou…
9 years, 6 months ago
Black Radical Politics in Inter War Harlem
Harlem was the epicentre of black cultural and intellectual life in the inter war decades. Competing radical nationalist and communist parties strugg…
9 years, 6 months ago
Spain, Stalin and European Communist Parties in the 1930s
After 1936 the Spanish Civil War became the focal issue for Europe's socialist and communist parties. The rise of Hitler to power had made anti fasci…
9 years, 7 months ago