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Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
By the end of the First World War Herbert Hoover was a national hero in America for his humanitarian work. A decade later he was engulfed in an econo…
11 years, 10 months ago
The Heath Government 1970-74
By the early 1970s a perfect storm of inflation and mounting industrial unrest brought the government of Edward Heath to its knees. His plans to intr…
11 years, 10 months ago
The Scramble For China
From the 1840s onwards China endured over half a century of an unprecedented onslaught from Britain and other western powers. She was defeated, humil…
11 years, 10 months ago
The Baader Meinhof Gang
Why did West Germany suffer a decade of terrorism from 1967-77? During the height of Vietnam War protests, a generation of radical West German studen…
11 years, 11 months ago
Strength Through Joy
In 1933 Hitler established a state run mass leisure organisation in Germany to help develop his vision of a socially unified, racially homogenous soc…
11 years, 11 months ago
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Between 1936 and 1938 nearly 2,000 British men and women travelled in secret to Spain to fight on the side of the Spanish Republic against a national…
11 years, 11 months ago
The Murder of Matteotti
When the Italian Socialist Giacomo Matteotti was assassinated in 1924, parts of the nation were united in outrage, strongly suspecting that their Pri…
11 years, 11 months ago
The Balfour Declaration
Why did the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour give an assurance to Britain's Zionists that there would be a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 19…
12 years ago
Mussolini and the March On Rome
How did Benito Mussolini manage to be appointed Prime Minister in 1922? This podcast explores the details of his rise to power from relative obscurit…
12 years ago
The Origins Of Italian Fascism
What are the origins of Italian Fascism? In order to understand Fascism as a concept we have to delve into the 19th Century history of the country. T…
12 years, 1 month ago