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Stateless Nations – Wales, Catalonia, and the Mezzogiorno
Gentlemen Amateurs – Staffing the Secret Service in the First World War
Japanese War Crimes in China 1937-45
America's withdrawal from Iraq
A Way of Love – Gay Life in Post-War Britain with Peter Parker
Bombing Damascus – France, the Mandate System, and the Atrocities of 1925
India, America and Nehru 1940-41
Stalin's Statues – Monuments, Memory, and the Theme Parking of History
Macmillan's Britain – Suez, Decline, and the Winds of Change 1957-60
MI6 in 1914
The AFD's advances– Neoliberalism, the Extreme Centre, and the Rise of the Far Right
Civil Rights After 1980 – The Unfinished Revolution
The Fall of Baghdad 1917 - Part Two
The Fall of Baghdad 1917
Britain Alone – The Hostile Environment and the Remaking of Britishness
Reforming the Tsar's Army – From Serfdom to Universal Service in Imperial Russia
Hegseth's War Crimes
An Exceptional Hatred – Antisemitism, Free Speech, and the American Culture War
Harold Wilson, Corporatism, and the Paranoia of the British Right
Trump, Canada and the defence of sovereignty
Voter suppression and stolen US elections
From Empire to Neoliberalism – The Long Arc of Capital and the Cannibalisation of the West
Belgium, America and Congo 1884-1960
America's Wrong Turn – How Neoliberalism Broke U.S. Healthcare with John McDonagh
California and the origins of the carceral state
The International Brigades and the fight for Spain
Between Two Empires – The Arab Revolts Against the Ottomans in Mesopotamia
Russia's post communist shock therapy 1991-3
War and Empire in the 20th Century
Mamdani, Corbyn and the War Within the Centre-Left
Quebec's secret biological warfare history
Belfast and the international networked far right
Italy from the fascism to post war republic
Militarism, Masculinity, and the Making of the American Warrior
The Ottoman March on Egypt 1915
Adoption, Colonialism, and the Korean War
The Shortest History of Scotland – Nation, Union, and the Rise of Nationalism
Trump and Nixon in Beijing - an instructive comparison
Master of Lies – Anthony Blunt, the Cambridge Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II
The Neocons Admit Defeat in Iran
Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes – The Golden Age, the Fall of Communism, and the Crisis of Social Democracy
The Tsar's Generals and the Press – Russian Military Journalism in the Reform Era
Austerity Never Ended – The Cultural Politics of Thrift in Modern Britain
The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel – Oil, Revolution, and the Birth of the Soviet State
The Death of Britain's Two-Party System – A Century in the Making
The Transnational Far Right – Hate, Vigilantism, and the Mainstreaming of Extremism
The Gulf Crisis – Two Theories of American Decline
The New World Order and Its Unravelling – From Bush Snr to Trump
China's Transformation 1978-84
Capitalism without Democracy
The End of NATO?
Petitions, protests and the Mandate System 1919-21
The Birth of the Multipolar Order and the "Evisceration" of the West
Trump's self created gulf trap
Are We Already in World War III?
Iran, the Straits of Hormuz, and the Graveyard of Navies
The Oscars and the Making of Hollywood
Civil crisis in the Ottoman Empire in 1913
Iran Roundup – America's Escalating Crisis in the Persian Gulf
Gambling, Pornography, and the Making of Modern America with Dennis Broe
London, New York and the Russian Revolution – The Emigré Hub of 1917
The Habsburg Army in 1914 – Incompetence, Illusion, and the Road to Disaster
Trump, Iran, and the Trajectory of American Empire
Serial Killers, the Blitz, and the Cracks in Britain's Wartime Myth
Defending Britain, Defending the Empire
The long wait for freedom for South Africa's slaves
The Dowding System and the Battle of Britain
Survival and greed in the conquest of the Aztec Empire
Anti-Colonial Struggle 1945-2026
Martha Gellhorn, Racism, and the Atrocities of Vietnam
The Collapse of the Sick Man: The First Balkan War and the End of Ottoman Europe
The Age of Catastrophe: Eric Hobsbawm and the Crisis of the Liberal Order
Mao's Lost Generation: Youth, Ideology, and the Cultural Revolution
The origins of the Watts Riot - 1965
Shellshock Nation: Fear, Fantasy, and the Myth of the "Devil's Decade"
The Politics of Resentment: From Brownshirts to ICE
The Scramble for Libya: Italy, the Ottomans, and the Prelude to the Balkan Wars
The Global Shock of the February Revolution 1917
The Greenland Crisis, British Weakness, and the Looming Collapse of the Atlantic Alliance
Mississippi Burning and the Freedom Summer of 1964
The War on the Peasantry: Stalin, the Grain Crisis, and the Road to Famine (Part 2)
De-Dollarization and the Trumpist Threat to the Fed
Sultan Abdulhamid's Counter Revolution - 1909
The Anonymous Ideology: Neoliberalism, Capital, and the Invisible Hand
Emergency Episode: The Murder of Renée Good and the Rise of the American Death Squad
Official remembering and forgetting in Xi Xinping's China
The End of NATO? Greenland, Trump, and the Collapse of the Atlantic Alliance
Was the Russian Revolution Inevitable? Historiography, Myth, and the Collapse of States
24 Hours Later: The Reality of Trump's Venezuelan Adventure
Emergency Episode: The attack on Venezuela - implications and consequences
The Soviet Gulag and Stalin's Great Terror
The Age of Extremes: Eric Hobsbawm and the Problem of Historical Amnesia
Fascism, Austerity, and the Class War in 1920s Italy
Beyond the Campus: Why the American New Left Failed to Ignite a Working-Class Revolution
Rationing, austerity and nostalgia
Bowie in the 90s and 2000s
Trump, India, and the Geopolitical Reset of 2025
American Suburbia and the birth of the Consumer’s Republic
Iwo Jima, historical memory and the myth of the Pacific War
The American New Left, Cold War Liberals and the Vietnam War