Explaining History

By Nick Shepley

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 Feb 20, 2021

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The Explaining History Podcast has been exploring the 20th Century in weekly chapters for the past 10 years, helping students and enthusiasts engage with the past. With the help of expert guests, your host Nick Shepley navigates competing debates around the key events and processes of the past century.

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Episode Date
The Royal Navy 1918-41
Apr 26, 2024
Black Britain 1948-89: Economic drivers of migration
Apr 17, 2024
Infiltrating the IRA: Terror and Espionage in Northern Ireland
Apr 08, 2024
IRA double agents - Terror and espionage with Henry Hemming
Apr 06, 2024
A timeline of everything - In conversation with Bruce Tapping
Apr 04, 2024
Mexico, America and NAFTA 1994-1995
Mar 20, 2024
Neoliberalism VS National Liberation Movements 1945-79
Mar 08, 2024
World War Two: The Good War?
Feb 23, 2024
Socialism and Fascism - what they are and are not
Feb 14, 2024
Resistance from the right: America's campus backlash against the counter culture
Feb 02, 2024
Wilson, Jenkins and austerity 1968-70
Jan 26, 2024
Gaza 2024
Jan 17, 2024
The rise and fall of Harry Clifton and the English Aristocracy - In conversation with David Slattery-Christy
Dec 06, 2023
Merze Tate - Groundbreaking scholar of colonialism and disarmament
Nov 15, 2023
Discussing Che Guevara
Nov 15, 2023
SAS raids in Italy 1943-45
Oct 29, 2023
Interwar Espionage and the rising threat of Nazism
Oct 20, 2023
Amazing Grace: The history of an anti slavery hymn and civil rights anthem
Oct 20, 2023
The Great Defiance: In conversation with David Veevers
Oct 08, 2023
Discussing W.E.B. Du Bois with Chad Williams
Sep 27, 2023
The modern right in Spain, from the Partido Popular to Vox
Sep 23, 2023
The origins of global free markets 1840-2001
Sep 14, 2023
Eye Witness: The End of White Rule in Rhodesia
Aug 30, 2023
California: A Slave State - Part Two
Aug 29, 2023
Colonialism and Culture Wars - In conversation with Professor Alan Lester
Aug 10, 2023
Slavery in California - In conversation with Jean Pfaelzer
Aug 03, 2023
The Fear of War in 1930s Europe
Jul 24, 2023
Black Britain 1948-89 Part One
Jul 20, 2023
German victories in the Caucasus: Spring - Summer 1942 (Part Two)
Jul 18, 2023
German victories in the Caucasus: Spring - Summer 1942
Jul 17, 2023
The collapse of Mexican neoliberalism 1994-5
Jul 14, 2023
Maoism Explained Part One
Jul 13, 2023
From the Pentagon Papers to Watergate 1971-74
Jul 12, 2023
Elton John VS the Sun Newspaper 1987-88
Jul 11, 2023
Countdown to Surrender: The last days of World War Two
Jul 10, 2023
Post War British Society 1945-1990
Jul 10, 2023
War reporting in the USSR: 1941-45
Jul 06, 2023
Scholar, Spy, Eyewitness: Winthrop Bell (Explaining History in Conversation with Jason Bell)
Jul 05, 2023
Anglo American Liberalism and the Mandate System 1918-1919
Jul 04, 2023
Mussolini's Mausoleum - 1957
Jul 03, 2023
Thatcherism's Contradictions 1975-2023
Jul 02, 2023
Paris 1870 siege and revolution - In conversation with David Lawday
Jun 22, 2023
Agent Twister - The life and faked death of John Stonehouse
Jun 01, 2023
The SAS and World War Two: In conversation with Damien Lewis
May 24, 2023
Isaac Murphy and the Reconstruction Era (1861-96): Explaining History in conversation with Katherine Mooney
May 03, 2023
Los Angeles and Core - The Freedom Rides 1947-61
Apr 18, 2023
Save the last bullet - stories of Hitler's child soldiers 1943-45
Mar 29, 2023
Asian Nationalism and the end of the British Empire - 1945
Mar 25, 2023
Habsburg Strategic Challenges - 1914
Mar 17, 2023
The Life of John Burgoyne - In conversation with Norman Poser
Mar 08, 2023
The American neoliberal counter revolution 1971-80
Feb 26, 2023
The post war women's movement: a global perspective - 1945
Feb 11, 2023
Dramatising the Diary of Anne Frank - In conversation with Adam Langer
Feb 03, 2023
The Dulles Brothers and Eisenhower - 1954
Jan 13, 2023
American Empire and the framework of modern capitalism
Jan 05, 2023
Soviet Society and the Great Terror: 1937
Dec 18, 2022
A revisionist approach to the U-Boat War 1939-45
Dec 05, 2022
Nationalism and identity in the Austro Hungarian Army 1914
Nov 25, 2022
The afterlife of Leon Trotsky's politics 1940-1982
Nov 17, 2022
Explaining History Study Extra: Lenin's Death and its consequences
Nov 14, 2022
Churchill, Asquith and Lloyd George - 1916
Nov 05, 2022
Explaining History Study Extra: Social division and the origins of Italian fascism
Oct 28, 2022
Sir Mark Sykes and the Eastern Question - 1915
Oct 26, 2022
Reflections on Neoliberalism in Britain
Oct 14, 2022
Revolutionary Violence in Madrid in 1936
Oct 06, 2022
East German anti Semitism
Sep 27, 2022
Britain's post war strategic questions
Sep 23, 2022
Tenth Anniversary Special - Myths of the Blitz
Sep 15, 2022
The Croat Spring 1971
Sep 06, 2022
Iraq and India - 1941
Aug 14, 2022
The Soviet State and the Peasants (Part Two)
Aug 05, 2022
Displaced Persons in Germany -1945
Jul 23, 2022
The Soviet State and the Peasants
Jul 10, 2022
Stalin and Poland - 1939
Jun 28, 2022
Journalism, Propaganda and War - Explaining History special
Jun 14, 2022
Mobilising the Habsburg Empire: Austria-Hungary and war in 1914
May 25, 2022
The Nanjing Massacre 1937-38 (Part One)
May 17, 2022
Update: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and the prospects for reunion
May 16, 2022
Empire, Fascism and War 1931-39
May 11, 2022
Rebuilding Germany - 1945
May 09, 2022
Britain's Convoys, Germany's U-Boats
May 05, 2022
Update: Roe vs Wade
May 05, 2022
Update: The long game emerging in Ukraine
Apr 28, 2022
Stalin's War (Part One)
Apr 26, 2022
Two revolutions and a constitution: In conversation with James Philips
Apr 26, 2022
Update: Musk and Twitter
Apr 26, 2022
Chiang Kai Shek and war with Japan - 1937 (Part Two)
Apr 25, 2022
Chiang Kai Shek and war with Japan - 1937 (Part One)
Apr 25, 2022
Update: French fascism defeated at the polls by Macron
Apr 25, 2022
Ukraine Update Episode Four: Putin and Zelenskiy's Western Supporters
Apr 04, 2022
British national identity in the age of Brexit: Explaining History in conversation with Dominic Selwood
Mar 28, 2022
SS mentalities and crimes
Mar 25, 2022
Ukraine Report March 2022 (episode Three)
Mar 21, 2022
Malta, Rommel and North Africa 1940-43
Mar 10, 2022
Ukraine Report March 2022 (episode two)
Mar 10, 2022
Ukraine Report March 2022
Mar 04, 2022
Eisenhower, atomic testing and the early cold war
Feb 18, 2022
China, the Second World War and historical memory (Part Two)
Feb 08, 2022
August 4th 1914 - the Reichstag votes for war
Jan 30, 2022
Eisenhower and the legacy of the New Deal
Jan 18, 2022
China, the Second World War and historical memory
Jan 09, 2022
McNamara and Vietnam 1960-68
Dec 13, 2021
Eisenhower and the downfall of Joseph McCarthy
Nov 30, 2021
Britain's War at Sea 1939-45 Part One - Imperial Overstretch
Nov 28, 2021
Richard Nixon and the beginning of the Watergate Scandal 1972-3
Nov 21, 2021
German Militarism and Social Cohesion in 1914
Nov 10, 2021
Debt, decline and post Prague Spring Eastern Europe 1969-1989
Oct 30, 2021
The Indian Army in the Middle East - 1940
Oct 23, 2021
Hitler, the Luftwaffe and the 'England Problem' - 1940
Oct 13, 2021
Grain seizures and famine during the Great Leap Forward
Oct 07, 2021
Harold Wilson and MI6 - 1963-76
Sep 27, 2021
De-Maoification 1976-1989
Sep 18, 2021
The End by Ian Kershaw - Germany 1944-45
Sep 08, 2021
Protest Music and Social Conflict in America (Part Two) 1967-70
Aug 29, 2021
Deng Xiaoping and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics 1978
Aug 22, 2021
Espionage and the American Communist Party 1945-47
Aug 14, 2021
Pravda and the Stalin's Terror - 1937
Aug 06, 2021
Protest music and the social conflict in America 1967-70 (Part One)
Jul 27, 2021
The experience of military mobilisation in Germany and Austria Hungary 1914
Jul 21, 2021
Getting Churchill wrong and the problem of fake history - Explaining History in conversation with Otto English
Jul 07, 2021
1937 - The Year of the Great Terror (Part One)
Jul 02, 2021
The Motherland Calls - the Soviet Union's Second World War memorials
Jun 12, 2021
Maoism, Vietnam and the Domino Theory
Jun 03, 2021
Neville Chamberlain's diplomatic and strategic world view - 1937
May 27, 2021
Poujade and French Postwar Fascism 1945-53
May 20, 2021
The Indian Army Officer Corps in World War Two
May 15, 2021
Britain, France and the Middle East - 1956
May 06, 2021
The Stalinist Showtrials on 1936-7
May 01, 2021
American Cold War Liberals and the McCarthyite era 1948-57
Apr 30, 2021
Thatcherism 1979-2021
Apr 19, 2021
Germany's air war over the Netherlands and France: 1940
Apr 12, 2021
France, De Gaulle and post war anti fascism 1945-51
Apr 02, 2021
Lebensraum, Genocide and Nazi Colonial Utopias 1941-45
Mar 27, 2021
Soviet Citizens and the start of the Great Terror- 1937
Mar 21, 2021
Schlieffen, Moltke and German strategy 1914
Mar 10, 2021
Eisenhower, Korea and the politics of 1950s America
Mar 04, 2021
Problematic Histories: Teaching Civil Rights in the UK and the BLM moment
Feb 19, 2021
The Eighth Airforce over Germany - Explaining History in conversation with David Dean Barrett
Feb 15, 2021
Britain, France and the Mandate System 191-19
Feb 13, 2021
Germany and Austria-Hungary's 'war fever' re-examined: 1914
Feb 10, 2021
Korea, McCarthy and anti communism
Feb 09, 2021
Postwar planning, centralisation and its enemies: 1945
Feb 06, 2021
Australia Japan and the Kokoda Trail Campaign
Feb 03, 2021
The Tory Right from Enoch Powell to Margaret Thatcher: 1957-1979
Feb 02, 2021
Communal kitchens and Mao's Great Famine 1958-61
Feb 01, 2021
Stalinist terror and Soviet society: Part One
Jan 30, 2021
Britain's media power and broken politics: In conversation with Mic Wright
Jan 27, 2021
The origins of the Iran Contra Scandal 1979-82
Jan 26, 2021
British Anti Fascism 192936
Jan 25, 2021
Austria, Germany and the July Crisis 1914
Jan 23, 2021
Poverty, caste and recruitment to the Indian Army during World War Two
Jan 21, 2021
France, Britain and the road to Suez 1952-56
Jan 20, 2021
The ethnic cleansing of German civilians in Eastern Europe: 1945
Jan 19, 2021
Anti Communism in Europe 1917-21
Jan 18, 2021
Britain's miners and the causes of the General Strike 1918-26
Jan 12, 2021
France and the Syrian uprising 1925
Jan 04, 2021
The origins of the Soviet camps 1917-21
Dec 28, 2020
Britain, France, Israel and the Suez conspiracy 1956
Dec 22, 2020
Anti Slav hysteria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire - July 1914
Dec 20, 2020
Poison gas and its long term impact on the 20th Century
Dec 17, 2020
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Benn and Great Britain: 1973 - 1983
Dec 07, 2020
Rumours, letters and humour in Stalinist Russia 1928-38
Nov 14, 2020
The Sino Soviet Split - In conversation with Larry Auton Leaf
Oct 28, 2020
Lyndon Johnson and the legacy of JFK - 1963
Oct 25, 2020
The Battle of Guadalcanal: Part Two
Oct 09, 2020
Aspects of working class life in Britain during the 1930s
Sep 26, 2020
Sachsenhausen, Soviet POWs and the origins of the Final Solution
Sep 15, 2020
The British Communist Party, Popular Fronts and Spain 1932-36
Sep 02, 2020
Guadancanal and Ironbottom Sound
Aug 22, 2020
Collaboration and Vengeance in Europe 1945
Aug 15, 2020
The Battle of Midway
Aug 05, 2020
Britain and the Central African Federation 1951-59
Jul 20, 2020
Abandoned children in Stalin's Russia 1928-39
Jul 06, 2020
France's road to Dien Bien Phu 1954
Jun 24, 2020
French political crisis and the First Indochinese War 1951-54
Jun 12, 2020
Hunting Evil: Nazi War Criminals in South America. Explaining History in conversation with historian Guy Walters
May 22, 2020
German terror bombing and Warsaw 1939
May 18, 2020
Britain's Europe Referendum 1975
May 08, 2020
French Politics and the war in Indochina 1949-54
May 04, 2020
Internationalism vs Anti Communism in America: 1945-7
May 03, 2020
140 Days to Hiroshima Part Two: Explaining History interview with David Dean Barrett
May 01, 2020
Ronald Reagan's conservative transition 1954
Apr 27, 2020
The US Navy and the Battle of Midway
Apr 25, 2020
Pacifism and British Politics 1933-39
Apr 23, 2020
Slave labour and the Nazi Armaments Industry 1942-45
Apr 23, 2020
Class origin, social stigma and the Stalin Constitution 1935-39
Apr 22, 2020
140 Days to Hiroshima: Explaining History Interview with David Barrett
Apr 16, 2020
China's Neoliberal Turn - 1978
Apr 14, 2020
France, China and Vietnam 1949-51
Apr 08, 2020
The aftermath of the fall of the Philippines: May 1942
Apr 01, 2020
Poison gas on the Western Front - 1915-18
Mar 26, 2020
Leninism and the Communist Party of Great Britain - 1921
Mar 17, 2020
The Continuity of Italian fascism after 1945 (Part four)
Mar 10, 2020
The post war decades and the neoliberal turn
Mar 03, 2020
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part three)
Feb 25, 2020
Venizelos, Lloyd George and the Greek annexation of Smyrna: May 1919
Feb 11, 2020
Soviet POWs and commissars: 1941
Feb 03, 2020
The coup plots against the Wilson Governments 1964-76
Jan 28, 2020
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part two)
Jan 25, 2020
Nazi Press Laws 1933-36
Jan 14, 2020
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945
Jan 07, 2020
Betrayal, collapse and the fall of Burma 1942
Dec 17, 2019
Mao and the invention of China's landlords
Dec 04, 2019
Nationalisation in Britain after 1945
Nov 19, 2019
Family Life in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
Nov 13, 2019
Britain's Class System in the 1930s
Nov 11, 2019
Nazi Propaganda and Radio Broadcasting
Nov 04, 2019
US anti communism and the Republican Party 1945-50 (Part One)
Oct 18, 2019
The Roots of German and Italian Fascism
Oct 14, 2019
German Bombing Raids on London and Paris 1917-18
Oct 07, 2019
Comintern agents between the wars
Sep 30, 2019
Renunciation in Stalin's Russia
Sep 23, 2019
Politics, class and democracy in interwar Britain 1918-39
Sep 17, 2019
Czechoslovakia's anti German ethnic cleansing 1945
Sep 15, 2019
Special Update: Report on the Coup: Part Two
Sep 10, 2019
Truman's Domestic Failures 1945-52
Sep 03, 2019
The Origins of Fascism: Part Three
Sep 01, 2019
Special Update: Report from the coup August 2019
Sep 01, 2019
Stalinist social cleansing 1929-37
Aug 31, 2019
Maoist social cleansing 1949
Aug 19, 2019
The Aftermath of Pearl Harbour 1941
Aug 19, 2019
British Society on the eve of World War Two (Part Two)
Aug 19, 2019
Eastern Europe's 'little Stalins' - Ulbricht, Beirut, Rakosi
Aug 12, 2019
Talking History: The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Aug 12, 2019
British society during the 1930s
Aug 08, 2019
The Nazi Cultural Revolution 1933-39
Aug 06, 2019
German and Austro-Hungarian military planning 1906-1914
Jul 31, 2019
The Origins of Fascism: Part Two
Jul 31, 2019
Spain's state of emergency and the Falange Party - 1934
Jul 29, 2019
Britain, America and Palestine 1939-42
Jul 22, 2019
Exile and deportation in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
Jul 22, 2019
The Nazi Quarry Camps 1938-40
Jul 20, 2019
The origins of fascism: part one
Jul 08, 2019
Building Mao's police state 1949
Jul 07, 2019
Truman and Congress 1945-46
Jul 07, 2019
Forced labour and the Nazi camp system
Jul 07, 2019
Intelligence gathering and the First World War
Jul 06, 2019
Expulsion, disenfranchisement and class war in Stalinist Russia
Jun 30, 2019
The RAF, empire and strategic bombing 1918-39
Jun 30, 2019
The advance of the fascist right in Spain 1933-4
Jun 24, 2019
Class persecution and former people in Stalinist Russia 1928-39
Jun 23, 2019
American air doctrine and the B-17a bomber
Jun 23, 2019
The Marshall Plan 1947-2
Jun 23, 2019
The militarisation of the SS 1933-39
Jun 17, 2019
Mao's Famine and Szechuan Province 1958-62
Jun 16, 2019
Indian soldiers and the defence of Egypt in 1914-15
Jun 16, 2019
Social conflict in Spain 1933
Jun 14, 2019
The escalation of the French Vietnamese War 1946-9
Jun 13, 2019
Creating a new podcast for Explaining History - an appeal to listeners
Jun 12, 2019
The Fall of Singapore 1942
Jun 11, 2019
The Truman Doctrine 1947
Jun 11, 2019
Nazi Propaganda and the camp system 1933-39
Jun 10, 2019
Ernest Bevin and Britain's World Role 1945-48
Jun 10, 2019
Britain, France and Vietnam 1945-7
Jun 04, 2019
The Fall of Malaya 1941
Jun 02, 2019
Mao and 'Red Star over China' 1936
Jun 02, 2019
Austria, Germany and popular attitudes in the July Crisis 1914
May 27, 2019
Churchill's government and the Nazi invasion of the USSR 1941
May 27, 2019
Soviet Occupation and Liberation 1945
May 27, 2019
Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Peasants 1918-27
May 20, 2019
The Nazi Camps and the 'workshy'
May 20, 2019
The Maoist takeover of China 1949
May 14, 2019
British decision making and the Dardanelles Campaign 1915
May 12, 2019
America's cold war cross roads 1946-7
May 07, 2019
Artillery and Intelligence: Breaking the deadlock 1918
Apr 23, 2019
Stalinist consumerism and advertising
Apr 15, 2019
The Long Telegram and the Iron Curtain Speech: February - March 1946
Apr 14, 2019
Austria, Germany and the Armistice 1918
Apr 14, 2019
Lysenkoism, eugenics and the USSR
Apr 08, 2019
The British Empire and the Mandate system 1919
Apr 02, 2019
Criminal Prisoners in the Nazi Camps
Mar 26, 2019
John Lennon and Give Peace a Chance 1969
Mar 19, 2019
Hero Culture in Stalin's Russia 1928-41
Mar 13, 2019
Talking about Europe - Interview with Jacob Field
Mar 04, 2019
The expansion of the Indian Army 1939-43
Feb 27, 2019
Harold Wilson and Britain's 'special relationship' with America 1964-5
Feb 20, 2019
Truman's foreign policy problems 1945-46
Feb 05, 2019
Berlin and Munich in the 1920s
Jan 30, 2019
Asocial prisoners in the Nazi camp system
Jan 22, 2019
Soviet utopianism and the construction of Stalinist Russia
Jan 16, 2019
The Ottoman Empire and the First World War 1914 (PT1)
Jan 08, 2019
Roosevelt, Truman and Cold War diplomacy 1944-46
Dec 31, 2018
Kazakhstan's Dark Shadows: An interview with journalist Joanna Lillis
Dec 18, 2018
Britain and conscription 1945-49
Dec 11, 2018
Utopian thinking and everyday life in Stalin's Russia
Dec 04, 2018
The Battle of Vittorio Venetto - October 1918
Nov 28, 2018
Mao, Stalin and Khrushchev: 1949-57
Nov 20, 2018
The Nazi Party and Germany's working class 1933
Nov 13, 2018
The Armenian Legionnaires 1914-21
Oct 22, 2018
Oswald Mosley and post war British fascism 1945-66
Oct 22, 2018
Amateurism, incompetence and the Bolshevik seizure of power
Oct 15, 2018
American society and foreign policy 1945-47
Oct 08, 2018
Stalinism and the black market 1928-39
Sep 30, 2018
Prisoner's experiences in pre war Nazi camps 1933-39
Sep 24, 2018
Austria Hungary's Wartime Secret State 1914-18
Sep 17, 2018
The baby boom and post war America 1945-64
Sep 10, 2018
The British Counter-culture in the 1960s
Sep 02, 2018
The Nazi Party and German Monopoly Capitalism
Aug 28, 2018
French national pride and empire: 1944
Aug 19, 2018
Hunger and the Russian Revolution - 1917
Aug 05, 2018
Saving the Jews of Budapest
Jul 29, 2018
Gandhi, Nehru and wartime crisis - 1940
Jul 29, 2018
Nixon, returning POWs and the legacy of Vietnam
Jul 28, 2018
British working class identity, tv and affluence 1954 -1964
Jul 23, 2018
Creating the SS Death's Head Division
Jul 17, 2018
Roosevelt, Stalin and the Creation of the Grand Alliance
Jul 15, 2018
Defending Afghanistan 1937-1940
Jul 15, 2018
French Internment of Spanish Refugees 1939-45
Jul 09, 2018
Truman's anti communist policy 1945-47
Jul 09, 2018
Japan's Strategic Failures 1940-41
Jul 09, 2018
Italy and the Paris Peace Conference Part Two
Jul 09, 2018
Himmler's orders and the SS Camp System 1933-39
Jul 08, 2018
Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism
Jul 08, 2018
Italy and the Paris Peace Conference
Jul 08, 2018
Erich Fromm and the Sane Society 1955
Jul 02, 2018
Rethinking Japan's war against China 1937-45
Jul 01, 2018
Mass consumerism in America 1945-60
Jul 01, 2018
Woodie Guthrie and the Dust Bowl
Jun 25, 2018
The fall of Damascus and Mesopotamia 1918
Jun 25, 2018
The Crushing of the Spartacists: 1919
Jun 24, 2018
Shops and shortages under Stalin 1929-39
Jun 17, 2018
Billie Holiday and Strange Fruit - 1939
Jun 11, 2018
The Freikorps vs the Red Army - Latvia 1919
Jun 11, 2018
The Siege of Leningrad Part Two
Jun 04, 2018
The problems of American rearmament: 1941
May 13, 2018
War exhaustion and the Central Powers
May 07, 2018
Social Mobility and the American Dream 1945-50
Apr 30, 2018
Hitler, Goering and the Four Year Plan
Apr 23, 2018
Lenin's Train to Russia: April 1917
Apr 16, 2018
The Defence of India -
Apr 15, 2018
The Siege of Leningrad Pt 1
Apr 09, 2018
America's post war boom (Part One) 1945-1973
Apr 03, 2018
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's failed bid to seize Moscow
Apr 02, 2018
India's Congress Party and the Muslim League: 1939-40
Apr 01, 2018
David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler: 1936
Mar 31, 2018
Barbarossa Part Six: The end of the offensive
Mar 21, 2018
Anti Communism and America's Trade Unions 1945-49
Mar 21, 2018
The Ottoman Empire and the July Crisis
Mar 14, 2018
The Origins of MI5 1903-1909
Mar 14, 2018
SS Training and the Nazi Camp System
Mar 04, 2018
American War Production and Finance 1917-18
Mar 01, 2018
The Creation of Yugoslavia 1919 (Part One)
Feb 27, 2018
Zero Hour: The Soviet Occupation of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw 1945
Feb 26, 2018
Franco's diplomacy and the defeat of fascism 1941-45
Feb 20, 2018
Hitler and Hjalmar Schacht
Feb 19, 2018
Barbarossa Pt 4: Stalin's ultimatum June-July 1941
Feb 17, 2018
The Butler Education Act 1944
Feb 15, 2018
Book Review: Babuska's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps by Marcel Krueger
Feb 13, 2018
Nixon, Reagan and the crisis years of the 1970s
Feb 05, 2018
Stalinist secrecy and paranoia 1928-38
Jan 29, 2018
War Correspondents and Operation Barbarossa 1941
Jan 24, 2018
Roosevelt, Churchill and Lend Lease
Jan 19, 2018
Truman and the Taft Hartley Act 1947
Jan 16, 2018
Barbarossa Part Three: The USSR and the Invasion
Jan 13, 2018
American Volunteers and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
Jan 09, 2018
Woodrow Wilson and the founding of the League of Nations
Jan 07, 2018
Cold War assumptions and the beginning of the Korean War
Jan 06, 2018
The development of Nazi economic policy 1920-32
Jan 02, 2018
Churchill and the Russian Civil War 1919
Dec 29, 2017
Marx's legacy and the German Social Democratic Party
Dec 27, 2017
British, American and Chinese Neoliberalism 1978-80
Dec 22, 2017
Barbarossa Part Two: Hunger and annihilation
Dec 21, 2017
Allied Divisions over Russia - 1919
Dec 20, 2017
A plan for 2018: Free Historical Literacy For All...
Dec 19, 2017
Operation Barbarossa: Part One
Dec 17, 2017
British setbacks in the Desert War 1941-42
Dec 11, 2017
Russian proto-fascism 1903-7
Dec 09, 2017
Britain, Pakistan and the Partition of India
Dec 05, 2017
Austria after the Anschluss 1938-45
Dec 01, 2017
Britain's war with Nazi Germany and Vichy France in Iraq and Syria: 1941
Nov 26, 2017
The origins of Stalinist purges and show trials
Nov 22, 2017
Roosevelt, Wilkie and the 1940 Presidential Election
Nov 14, 2017
Hitler's Reich Governors
Nov 12, 2017
Lenin and the founding of the British Communist Party: 1920
Nov 12, 2017
The fall of Greece and Crete 1941
Nov 11, 2017
Chiang, Mao and the battle for China 1945-49 (Part One)
Nov 06, 2017
Sachsenhausen, Dachau and the later Nazi Camps 1936-39
Oct 30, 2017
The Crisis of American Labor Unions 1945-50
Oct 23, 2017
Mussolini's War in Greece: 1940-41
Oct 21, 2017
The Politics of Stalinism Part Two
Oct 15, 2017
The Bolsheviks and the Peacemakers 1919
Oct 14, 2017
American Labour Militancy 1945-46
Sep 30, 2017
Eisenhower, the CIA and the death of Stalin
Sep 25, 2017
Hitler's Civil Service
Sep 24, 2017
The rights of American Women 1945-55
Sep 23, 2017
Britain's early victories in the desert war 1940-41
Sep 23, 2017
Booker T Washington and the Jim Crow Era
Sep 22, 2017
The Politics of Stalinism Part One
Sep 22, 2017
Hitler's personality and German Government
Sep 21, 2017
Bolshevik Russia and the Paris Peacemakers - 1919
Sep 18, 2017
The Italo Turkish War
Sep 17, 2017
American and British Volunteers at the Battle of Jarama, 1937
Sep 16, 2017
America, USSR, Britain and the development of the atomic bomb
Sep 16, 2017
Hitler and the creation of the 'Fuhrer State'
Sep 11, 2017
The Fall and Rise of European Tensions 1909-11
Sep 10, 2017
The Nazi Party 1933
Sep 09, 2017
Franco's march on Madrid: 1936
Sep 07, 2017
The CIA and early anti Soviet Operations
Sep 04, 2017
Emerging Nations and the Paris Peace Conference
Sep 03, 2017
An appeal to listeners on the thorny issue of hate speech
Sep 01, 2017
The Office of the Fuhrer
Sep 01, 2017
Slavery, Cotton and Capitalism
Aug 30, 2017
Racism and Black Americans 1945-48
Aug 28, 2017
The Supreme Council of the Paris Peace Conference 1919
Aug 28, 2017
The Arabs and the Palestine Mandate
Aug 25, 2017
Japan and the First World War
Aug 24, 2017
British Air Raid Precautions 1938-1940
Aug 22, 2017
Japan's Merchant Shipping Losses 1941-45
Aug 22, 2017
Beginning the Battle for North Africa: 1940
Aug 20, 2017
The First Day of the Blitz: Britain, September 1940
Aug 15, 2017
War Reporting 1939
Aug 15, 2017
The USSR and the aftermath of the Six Day War
Aug 15, 2017
Hitler's decision making 1940-1941
Aug 13, 2017
Franco German cooperation 1926-32
Aug 13, 2017
David Ben Gurion and Palestine 1945-48
Aug 11, 2017
World War One and the creation of the Mandate system
Aug 08, 2017
The Battle of Britain Part Two
Aug 08, 2017
The overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the Ottoman Empire 1909
Aug 06, 2017
Black Americans and Civil Rights in 1945
Aug 06, 2017
Rethinking Stalin's Gulags
Aug 06, 2017
Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain Part One
Aug 03, 2017
Adenauer, Schumacher and West German De-Nazification: 1949
Aug 03, 2017
Sacco and Vanzetti Part Two
Aug 01, 2017
The Young Turk Revolt 1908
Aug 01, 2017
LLoyd George and the British Empire delegation in Paris 1919
Jul 31, 2017
Britain, America and the aftermath of Dunkirk
Jul 30, 2017
The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial 1920-1927
Jul 28, 2017
America, Palestine and Jewish Immigration 1945-48
Jul 27, 2017
The Fall of France Part One
Jul 25, 2017
Journalists and the Spanish Civil War
Jul 25, 2017
Georges Clemenceau and the Paris Peace Conference 1919
Jul 23, 2017
Hitler, Franco and the Spanish Civil War
Jul 23, 2017
Mao'hird Front 1964-1980
Jul 18, 2017
Hitler's Invasion of Norway: April 1940
Jul 16, 2017
War Reporting on the Western Front 1914-15
Jul 13, 2017
Churchill's 'Fight Them On The Beaches' Speech June 1940
Jul 11, 2017
Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference 1919
Jul 11, 2017
Churchill and Roosevelt 1939-1940
Jul 09, 2017
China in 1945
Jul 09, 2017
British Propaganda and the First World War
Jul 09, 2017
Stalin, Mao and the Korean War
Jul 05, 2017
Foreign workers in Hitler's Germany 1939-45
Jul 04, 2017
Pre War German Jewish Culture and Indentity
Jul 04, 2017
Maoist Re-education and China's Youth
Jul 02, 2017
Truman and the founding of the CIA - 1947
Jul 02, 2017
Australia and Asia in the 1960s
Jun 29, 2017
The BBC and the General Strike 1926
Jun 27, 2017
Roosevelt and Chamberlain 1939-1940
Jun 25, 2017
Hunger and Division in Germany 1916-18
Jun 25, 2017
Eastern Europe after Stalin 1953-1989
Jun 22, 2017
Prohibition in America 1918-1933
Jun 20, 2017
Book Review: British National Identity
Jun 20, 2017
Germany, Austria and the July Crisis 1914
Jun 19, 2017
The Allied Bombing of Germany 1940-1945
Jun 16, 2017
China's Self Strengthening Movement 1860-1895
Jun 15, 2017
Book Review: Reagan: American Icon by Iwan Morgan
Jun 13, 2017
The decline and fall of the 20th Century Manifesto
Jun 13, 2017
Europe's Age of Catastrophe 1914-1945
Jun 12, 2017
Book Review: The Winchester - legend of the west
Jun 09, 2017
The Myth of Hitler's Economic Success
Jun 09, 2017
Britain's Forgotten Depression 1920-21
Jun 08, 2017
Book Review: Gotham Rising
Jun 07, 2017
Mao and the Red Guards: 1966.
Jun 05, 2017
Palestine, India and Britain: Two partitions and the end of empire
Jun 02, 2017
Book Review: Black Power and the American People
May 31, 2017
Public Opinion and International Relations 1890-1914
May 29, 2017
Book Review: Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner
May 26, 2017
1979 and the birth of neoliberalism
May 22, 2017
IG Farben and the Holocaust
May 08, 2017
War and British National Identity in the 20th Century
Apr 26, 2017
Stalin and the Soviet Bomb 1945-49
Apr 17, 2017
Bretton Woods 1944-1971
Apr 04, 2017
Mao, Khrushchev and the Great Leap Forward
Mar 27, 2017
2017 Exams Special: Expert study advice with Lucy Parsons
Mar 22, 2017
The World Recession in the 1970s
Mar 13, 2017
French Fascism 1919-1939
Mar 04, 2017
Japan, war and hardship 1937-41
Feb 20, 2017
The Fate of Europe's Collaborators - 1945
Feb 13, 2017
Kennedy, the CIA and Vietnam 1960-1963
Feb 06, 2017
India and the outbreak of war 1939
Jan 23, 2017
The Battle of Amiens, 1918
Jan 15, 2017
Hitler and the Catholic Church 1933-37
Jan 09, 2017
Radical Politics and British Pop Music 1976-87
Jan 01, 2017
From Tito to Milosevic - the breakup of Yugoslavia
Dec 12, 2016
Nixon, Reagan and the war on drugs 1971-1989
Nov 27, 2016
Class Warfare in Spain 1918-1931
Nov 20, 2016
Calcutta and the Indian Partition 1946
Nov 12, 2016
Britain's changing wartime relationship with its colonies
Oct 31, 2016
Black Radical Politics in Inter War Harlem
Oct 15, 2016
Spain, Stalin and European Communist Parties in the 1930s
Oct 05, 2016
Post War British Sexual Politics 1945-1971
Sep 21, 2016
Tito and Yugoslavia in 1945
Sep 09, 2016
Stalin, showtrials and terror 1936-38
Aug 31, 2016
Engels and the Condition of the Working Class in England
Aug 20, 2016
Churchill and the Bombing of Bulgaria 1941-44
Aug 06, 2016
Railways, Revolution and Sun Yat Sen: 1860-1925
Jul 27, 2016
Britain's Interwar Press Barons
Jul 20, 2016
The Battle of Tsushima and its aftermath
Jul 12, 2016
The Development of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Jul 03, 2016
Western Intellectuals and Mao's China
Jun 24, 2016
Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980
Jun 15, 2016
The British Labour Movement 1880-1914
Jun 06, 2016
The Democratic National Convention 1968
May 31, 2016
Antonio Gramsci
May 20, 2016
East German Anti Semitism 1949
May 06, 2016
MacArthur and Japan
Apr 29, 2016
The Fall of Budapest
Apr 20, 2016
Poland, Palestine and Zionism
Apr 19, 2016
The Counterculture and the 1960s
Apr 11, 2016
Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation
Mar 26, 2016
John Maynard Keynes and the American Loan
Mar 18, 2016
Rudolf Hoess
Mar 10, 2016
Lawrence of Arabia
Mar 01, 2016
American Suburbia and Segregation
Feb 19, 2016
Britain's Role in Vietnam 1945
Feb 05, 2016
Women's political publishing 1850-1918
Jan 25, 2016
France's Empire between the world wars
Jan 20, 2016
The Partition of India 1947
Jan 15, 2016
India in 1945
Jan 05, 2016
Stalinist Architecture
Dec 23, 2015
Harry Truman 1945
Dec 14, 2015
Nixon and Kissinger 1968-74
Dec 09, 2015
Subhas Chandra Bose
Nov 30, 2015
The Tories and the Miners 1970-1984
Nov 17, 2015
Asia after the atomic bomb
Nov 09, 2015
America in 1945
Oct 30, 2015
British and American Journalists and the Russian Revolution
Oct 23, 2015
Romania, Communism and the Holocaust
Oct 14, 2015
Thatcher, AIDS and sexual politics in the 1980s
Oct 05, 2015
Goebbels and Total War
Sep 28, 2015
The Ku Klux Klan 1915-24
Sep 23, 2015
The Berlin Wall 1961
Sep 04, 2015
John Lennon in America: 1970-73
Aug 21, 2015
The Origins of Mao's Cultural Revolution
Aug 11, 2015
Erich Fromm
Aug 04, 2015
East Germany and the Sino Soviet Split
Aug 03, 2015
The Creation of the Red Army
Jul 27, 2015
Churchill and Greece
Jul 13, 2015
Menachim Begin and Irgun
Jul 07, 2015
Evacuation
Jul 01, 2015
Hunger, housing and the First Five Year Plan
Jun 23, 2015
Lyndon Johnson 1963-64
Jun 16, 2015
Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980
Jun 14, 2015
The Representation of the People Act 1918
Jun 14, 2015
Inflation 1916-1923
Jun 08, 2015
Orde Wingate and Palestine
Jun 01, 2015
Ukraine 1918
May 27, 2015
Stalinist Consumerism
May 19, 2015
Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign
May 14, 2015
The Berlin Crisis 1961
Apr 28, 2015
Britain's Labour Government 1945-51
Apr 21, 2015
The Fall of Budapest, 2945
Apr 20, 2015
Poland, Palestine and Zionism
Apr 19, 2015
The Bandung Conference
Apr 01, 2015
Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation
Mar 26, 2015
Mao and China's Peasants
Mar 19, 2015
The Amritsar Massacre
Mar 11, 2015
Rudolf Hoess
Mar 09, 2015
The Congress of Berlin
Feb 25, 2015
The Frankfurt School
Feb 23, 2015
The Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe 1944-50
Feb 19, 2015
Wilson, Roosevelt and the USSR
Feb 13, 2015
The Easter Rising 1916
Jan 31, 2015
Women's Political Publishing 1850-1918
Jan 25, 2015
The Liberal Government and the First World War
Jan 22, 2015
The Red Summer 1919
Jan 14, 2015
China and the First World War
Jan 06, 2015
Mussolini's Cult of Personality
Jan 01, 2015
The Potsdam Conference
Dec 11, 2014
The Wannsee Conference
Dec 02, 2014
Harold Wilson's Government 1964-70
Nov 21, 2014
Europe In 1945
Nov 18, 2014
The Yalta Conference
Nov 11, 2014
The Tehran Conference
Nov 04, 2014
Leni Riefenstahl
Oct 29, 2014
Prohibition
Oct 21, 2014
The Profumo Scandal
Oct 17, 2014
The Nazi Soviet Pact
Oct 10, 2014
The Washington Naval Conference
Oct 09, 2014
The Long Term Causes of the Suez Crisis
Sep 17, 2014
Britain, Russia and the Eastern Question
Sep 15, 2014
Weimar Germany's Roaring 20s
Sep 10, 2014
Oswald Mosley
Sep 01, 2014
Friedrich Hayek
Aug 29, 2014
The Russian Civil War
Aug 28, 2014
Lenin's Red Terror 1918
Aug 20, 2014
The Provisional Government: Russia 1917
Aug 12, 2014
The Casablanca Conference
Jul 16, 2014
Dien Bien Phu
Jul 14, 2014
Kruschev and the Secret Speech 1956
Jul 11, 2014
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
Jul 10, 2014
The Heath Government 1970-74
Jul 09, 2014
The Scramble For China
Jun 27, 2014
The Baader Meinhof Gang
May 27, 2014
Strength Through Joy
May 20, 2014
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
May 16, 2014
The Murder of Matteotti
May 12, 2014
The Balfour Declaration
May 09, 2014
Mussolini and the March On Rome
May 08, 2014
The Origins Of Italian Fascism
Apr 09, 2014
British Labour History in the 19th Century
Feb 04, 2014
The WWII origins of the Vietnam War
Jan 13, 2014
Trotsky In Mexico
Jan 02, 2014
Japan's First Defeats 1942-43
Nov 08, 2013
The Five Year Plans and the Stakhanovites
Nov 04, 2013
The Fellow Travellers
Oct 25, 2013
Terrorism, Anarchism and Russia's Intelligentsia
Jun 14, 2013
The German Revolution 1918
Jun 09, 2013
Theodor Herzl
May 18, 2013
De-Nazification
May 07, 2013
Germans and the Holocaust
May 07, 2013
The Battle Of The Atlantic
Apr 16, 2013
Lend Lease
Feb 19, 2013
The Marshall Plan
Feb 16, 2013
The Truman Doctrine
Feb 09, 2013
Stalin and Trotsky
Jan 10, 2013
Women, Children and Families after 1917
Jan 10, 2013
The February Revolution
Dec 29, 2012
Russia's Aristocracy
Dec 28, 2012
Russia and the 1905 Revolution
Dec 28, 2012
The Aftermath of the Russian Civil War
Dec 12, 2012
Germany's defeat in 1918
Dec 11, 2012