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John Maynard Keynes and the American Loan
At the end of the Second World War, the USA reshaped the world economy in its own interests. The acute economic problems facing great Britain due to …
10 years, 1 month ago
Rudolf Hoess
When Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz between 1940 and 1943 was tried for his crimes in 1947 he was open and revealing about the process of …
10 years, 2 months ago
Lawrence of Arabia
In 1916 a British officer, Thomas Edward Lawrence and an Arab prince, Feisal of Mecca led a guerrilla army of Bedouin against the Ottoman Empire in A…
10 years, 2 months ago
American Suburbia and Segregation
In the post war decades the dream of new affordable housing came true for millions of white Americans. Black, Latino, Jewish and other ethnic minorit…
10 years, 2 months ago
Britain's Role in Vietnam 1945
At the end of the Second World War, the British Army marched into the French colony of Indochina, which had been occupied by Japan for the previous f…
10 years, 3 months ago
Women's political publishing 1850-1918
In the second half of the 19th Century a quiet publishing revolution was taking place. Victorian ladies with education and wealth were able to produc…
10 years, 3 months ago
France's Empire between the world wars
Between 1918 and 1939 France's overseas colonial empire, like Britain's, grew with the acquisition of Ottoman territories as mandates. France's empir…
10 years, 3 months ago
The Partition of India 1947
In 1947, two days after India became an independent nation, the plans to partition the country into a Hindu India and Muslim East and West Pakistan w…
10 years, 3 months ago
India in 1945
In 1945, after the devastation of a long war across Asia, Britain's hold over her Indian empire was greatly weakened. The new Labour Government was n…
10 years, 4 months ago
Stalinist Architecture
In the aftermath of the October Revolution in 1917, Constructivism, a radical avante garde modernist style of architecture became influential. The Co…
10 years, 4 months ago