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Post War British Sexual Politics 1945-1971
Did Britain have a sexual revolution in the 1960s? All indications suggest that momentous change occurred in attitudes to pregnancy, marriage, divorc…
9 years, 7 months ago
Tito and Yugoslavia in 1945
At the end of the Second World War, intense ethnic hatreds had been reawoken in Yugoslavia and Josef Tito's victorious communist partisans took advan…
9 years, 8 months ago
Stalin, showtrials and terror 1936-38
In the second half of the 1930s, after explosive economic growth during the five year plans the USSR was convulsed by murderous political violence. T…
9 years, 8 months ago
Engels and the Condition of the Working Class in England
In 1845, at the height of Britain's industrial revolution, Friedrich Engels, the son of a German cotton industrialist came to live in Manchester. His…
9 years, 8 months ago
Churchill and the Bombing of Bulgaria 1941-44
In the middle years of the Second World War, Bulgaria became a target for repeated and heavy RAF and USAAF bombing raids. Bulgaria's alliance with Ge…
9 years, 9 months ago
Railways, Revolution and Sun Yat Sen: 1860-1925
In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, railways and steam boats became tools for European powers to colonially exploit a weakened China. Followin…
9 years, 9 months ago
Britain's Interwar Press Barons
In the 1920s and 1930s the ownership of Britain's newspapers concentrated in an ever smaller number of hands. Lords Northcliffe, Rothermere and Beave…
9 years, 9 months ago
The Battle of Tsushima and its aftermath
In 1905 the destruction of the Russian fleet by the Japanese sent political and cultural shockwaves throughout the world. Colonised Asia saw weakness…
9 years, 9 months ago
The Development of the Nazi Concentration Camps
In March 1933 the arrest of thousands of communists, socialists and trade unions saw the birth of Hitler's concentration camp system. However, the id…
9 years, 10 months ago
Western Intellectuals and Mao's China
Why did British, American and European philosophers, writers and journalists embrace Maoism and the violent repression of China after 1949? This podc…
9 years, 10 months ago