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Explaining History — 955 episodes
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
2025 Year in Review Part 2: The End of Europe’s Holiday from History
The Mirage of Classlessness: Affluence and Labour in 1950s America
The Accidental Podcast: Reflections on History, Humanity, and You
The Forgotten Revolution: The Young Turks and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
2025 Year in Review Part 1: De-Dollarization, Tariffs, and the End of the "Long 20th Century"
Abundance, Anxiety and the American Dream: 1945 - 1960
Harold Wilson, MI5, and the Cold War Business of East-West Trade
One Year of Trump 2.0: The Civil War Within Western Capital
Stalin, Collectivisation and the Grain Crisis 1927-8
Germany's Fears of Russian Invasion in 1914
The Wannsee Conference and the Nazi Camps
Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution
The Damascus Affair: Blood Libel, Empire, and the Birth of Jewish Internationalism
The US National Security Strategy: A manifesto for the far right
Stalin and Tito: 1947 - Part Two
On Taxing Wealth
Stalin and Tito: 1947
Crisis and Identity: Russian Jews in the 19th Century
The Russian General Staff 1905-14
War Correspondents and Vietnam: Part Two
The Forgotten Revolution: Venezuela’s Democratic Spring of 1945
Your Party and the fragmented British Left in 2025
Code Breaking: From Bletchley Park to the Cold War
Explaining History: The End of the Western World Order?
The RAF and the origins of mass bombing 1939-40
America and China in 2025
Live Aid, famine, debt and activism: A four decade struggle for justice
Churchill's Spaniards: how veterans of the Spanish Civil War fought for Britain
Poverty, power and punishment in Georgian Britain
Family, memory and the burden of Germany's past
Unsung Victorians: Grace Darling, Josephine Butler & George Biddell Airy
John Dee: Queen Elizabeth's Wizard
Berlin in 1945
The politics of rearmament in Britain - 1936
The Ottoman Empire and Germany - 1914
Italian dockworkers and Gaza
Economica: The Hidden History of Women, Wealth, and Power
Uzbekistan and Central Asia in transition
The Holocaust and the General Government in occupied Poland
Social Democracy and the Splintering of the 60s left
Trump's State Visit 2.0
The Explaining History Podcast
The creation of the Central African Federation
Anti Communist Hysteria and state legislation in America
Iran's White Revolution 1963-77
An American retreat from Asia
Gorbachev's diplomacy 1985-88
Occupied Vietnam 1940-45
Tony Benn on Marxism and the Labour Party
The British Left's Revival in 2025
Black Britain and Roots
What Plato can teach us about the crises of the 21st Century
War Reporting in Vietnam
Fascist Yoga: The far right and its intersections with the wellness movement
Zionism and Palestine
Liberalism and the Global South
Rentier Capitalism and neo feudalism
Nation In Arms: Lessons from Five Armies That Made Europe
Anglo American rivalries in the Middle East
Economic Sanctions: Crimes against humanity.
From Powell Memo to Policy Powerhouse: How Right-Wing Think Tanks Hijacked America’s Future since 1973
Britain's Austerity Trap
A Gaza coalition emerging
Moral justifications for modern war
Maoist struggle sessions and the Cultural Revolution
Violeta Parra: Chile’s Folk Revolutionary, Cold-War Exile & Mother of Nueva Canción
Post war lesbian life in Britain
Edwardian Britain's most famous fraudster
Oligarchy in America and Russia
Trump's ICE brownshirts, an historical analysis
Bowie and the 1960s
British spies in Mesopotamia - 1915
Literary tastes, readers and book clubs in the inter war period
Austerity Britain 2010 - 2025
France: Collaboration and Occupation 1940-45
America, oil shocks and the crisis of the 1970s
A radical history of Liverpool
Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys - exploring the music and the melancholy of pop music's endless summer
The Battle of the Ebro: Part Two
The Battle of the Ebro: Part One
The planned break up of Iran
Trump and the lesson of 2008
Himmler and Auschwitz
The demise of Britain's post war foreign policy
Argentina's mothers of the disappeared
African Americans and the Oscars, from Gone with the Wind to Black Lives Matter
The Arab Regimes and Israel
Iran and the Neocons 1979-2025
Israel's attack on Iran - a historical context
Thoughts on Civil War
The fall of communism: An oral history
Colonial wealth transfers: A New Analysis
Neoliberalism and the European Economic Community
Trump, Musk and the end of American Empire
The Black American Experience in World War Two
Suffrage, Medicine and Murder
Conflicted Loyalties: Minority voices in wartime Britain and America
The political right and 'anti wokeness'
From F. Scott Fitzgerald to pulp detective novels - 1925 America's greatest literary year
Britain, France and the creation of Iraq 1919-21
The plot against Harold Wilson - 1967
Carter, Reagan, Bush and China
Maoism and Anti Imperialism
Britain's Broken Media
Gaza Update
China after Deng (Part One)
Discussing Mark Twain's 'Jim'
Melting Point: Russian Jews and the journey to Texas
The Contradictions of Thatcherism
Trump's tariff capitulation
Britain, Germany and the Blitz
VE Day : London 1945
Nazi wartime labour shortages
Social change in American post war suburbia
The German invasion of Belgium: 1914
The historiography of Malcolm X
America's post war rise and fall
Britain in an age of crisis 2001-2025
A Chinese Century?
Hollywood, witch hunts and class struggle in LA
Last flight out of Saigon - a story from the last days of the Vietnam War
China's Neoliberal Turn 1978-89
Tariffs, Brexit and the great reorientation
Changing interpretations on the Nation of Islam
The decline of US Liberal Internationalism
Hitler's resource war in Russia - 1941
Humans: A Monstrous History
Romania in 1918
Nazi economic plunder of western Europe PT2
Zelenskyy and the US Empire
The end of the Anglo American 'special relationship'
The decline of the Ottoman Empire Part 1
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 15
The Atlantic alliance from Roosevelt to Trump
Anarchism: A beginners guide Part Four
The rise and fall of American soft power
Globalisation since the 1990s
Trump's Strategic Problems (January '25)
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 14
Franco's March on Madrid
Holocaust Remembrance and Auschwitz
Anarchism: A beginners guide Part Three
America's boom years - 1950 to 1970 (part two)
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 13
Prince Harry and the British Press - a media history
America's boom years - 1950 to 1970 (part one)
Trump 2.0
A brief history of Anarchism
The Mandate System, Palestine, Syria and Iraq
Tiananmen Square 1989 - Part One
Civil Rights and the Fragmenting of the New Deal (part 2)
Anarchism: A beginners guide Part One
Catastrophic Technologies and Cold War Fears
Jean Marie Le Pen and the evolution of French Fascism
Gorbachev in New York 1988
The construction of historical memory
War Reporting from Stalingrad
America and the reconstruction of global capitalism
Trump's oligarchy: A historical perspective
The Battle of Stalingrad Part Three
Approaches to history Part Ten: Gender History
The Battle of Stalingrad Part Two
The Battle of Stalingrad Part One
Approaches to history Part 9: Marxist Historiography Part Two
Racism, Whiteness and Black Britain
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 12
Lenin and Ukraine 1917-19
Civil Rights and the Fragmenting of the New Deal
Approaches to history Part 8: Marxist Historiography
Making sense of Syria
Britain, Abyssinia and appeasement: 1935
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 11
Paleolibertarianism and MAGA
Spreading Stalin's Terror: 1937 - 1938
Russian Defeat in Syria
Special Report - Syria and the defeat of Assad
Empiricism Part Three
The development of the Holocaust 1941-1942
The economic consequences of Trump
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 Part Ten
Mao, Deng and the Sino Soviet Split
Nazi economic plunder of western Europe and war production crises
Approaches to history Part Five: Empiricism continued
American Lend Lease to the Soviet Union 1941-42
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 9
Truman, anti communism and the Marshall Plan
Mao, Deng and the Great Leap Forward
Approaches to history Part Four: Empiricism
China and the west in the 21st Century
War Reporting in China and the Pacific 1937-41
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 8
Black Civil Rights historiography and Booker T Washington
Dismantling the state in America and Britain
Approaches to history Part Three: Late Medieval History and the Renaissance
Declinism, Crisis and Trump
Planning the Battle of Britain: Hitler's calculations in the summer of 1940
From libertarian to fascist thought
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 7
The Austro Hungarian Empire and the First World War - 1914
The end of Globalisation
American workers in Stalin's Russia
Britain and the myth of the Special Relationship
Approaches to history Part Two: Teleology and the Middle Ages
Britain's withdrawal from Palestine: 1944-48
Populism and the crisis of whiteness
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 6
Trump and the crisis of the Democrat Party
Trumpism and the crisis of neoliberalism
The Legacy of the First World War
1989: The year of global transformation
Approaches to history Part One: Herodotus, the first historian
China, Japan and the legacy of the Nanjing Massacre
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 5
The New Deal and post war anti communism
The Gulag Revolts 1953
Hitler, Speer and Nazi Germany's armaments crisis 1942
Austerity Britain 1931-2024
Chamberlain's Britain - 1937
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 4
The Russian Revolution: Beyond Petrograd and Moscow (Part 2)
Woodrow Wilson, Mandates and the Paris Peace Conference
My Palestine by Mohammad Tarbush
The LA radical press 1964-70
Western Intellectuals and Stalinism Part One
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 3
The Russian Revolution: Beyond Petrograd and Moscow
The Decline and Fall of the Conservative Party
The rise and fall of the New Deal Era Part Two
America's War on Prostitution 1870-1930
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 (part 2)
Black American consumer rights during World War Two
War, Nation and Indentity in Israel 1948-73
The German General Staff and army - 1914
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53
The rise and fall of the New Deal Era Part One
With the Beatles 1940-1970
Chile: 9:11.73
20th Century Dictators
Men At War - Masculinity, Sexuality and Memory 1939-45
The Fall of Civilisations
Westlessness: The changing power of the west in the 21st Century
SAS warfare, survival and resistance 1942-44
French Counter Insurgency in Algeria
William Freeman and America's first profit driven prisons
From biplanes to the jet age - three decades in the RAF
Music and Marxism - understanding pop from a materialist and class analysis
South Africa's Democracy: 30 Years On
Understanding Nostalgia
Understanding David Lloyd George
The British Working Class - 1945-2024
The Royal Navy 1918-41
Black Britain 1948-89: Economic drivers of migration
Infiltrating the IRA: Terror and Espionage in Northern Ireland
IRA double agents - Terror and espionage with Henry Hemming
A timeline of everything - In conversation with Bruce Tapping
Mexico, America and NAFTA 1994-1995
Neoliberalism VS National Liberation Movements 1945-79
World War Two: The Good War?
Socialism and Fascism - what they are and are not
Resistance from the right: America's campus backlash against the counter culture
Wilson, Jenkins and austerity 1968-70
Gaza 2024
The rise and fall of Harry Clifton and the English Aristocracy - In conversation with David Slattery-Christy
Merze Tate - Groundbreaking scholar of colonialism and disarmament
Discussing Che Guevara
SAS raids in Italy 1943-45
Interwar Espionage and the rising threat of Nazism
Amazing Grace: The history of an anti slavery hymn and civil rights anthem
The Great Defiance: In conversation with David Veevers
Discussing W.E.B. Du Bois with Chad Williams
The modern right in Spain, from the Partido Popular to Vox
The origins of global free markets 1840-2001
Eye Witness: The End of White Rule in Rhodesia
California: A Slave State - Part Two
Colonialism and Culture Wars - In conversation with Professor Alan Lester
Slavery in California - In conversation with Jean Pfaelzer
The Fear of War in 1930s Europe
Black Britain 1948-89 Part One
German victories in the Caucasus: Spring - Summer 1942 (Part Two)
German victories in the Caucasus: Spring - Summer 1942
The collapse of Mexican neoliberalism 1994-5
Maoism Explained Part One
From the Pentagon Papers to Watergate 1971-74
Elton John VS the Sun Newspaper 1987-88
Countdown to Surrender: The last days of World War Two
Post War British Society 1945-1990
War reporting in the USSR: 1941-45
Scholar, Spy, Eyewitness: Winthrop Bell (Explaining History in Conversation with Jason Bell)
Anglo American Liberalism and the Mandate System 1918-1919
Mussolini's Mausoleum - 1957
Thatcherism's Contradictions 1975-2023
Paris 1870 siege and revolution - In conversation with David Lawday
Agent Twister - The life and faked death of John Stonehouse
The SAS and World War Two: In conversation with Damien Lewis
Isaac Murphy and the Reconstruction Era (1861-96): Explaining History in conversation with Katherine Mooney
Los Angeles and Core - The Freedom Rides 1947-61
Save the last bullet - stories of Hitler's child soldiers 1943-45
Asian Nationalism and the end of the British Empire - 1945
Habsburg Strategic Challenges - 1914
The Life of John Burgoyne - In conversation with Norman Poser
The American neoliberal counter revolution 1971-80
The post war women's movement: a global perspective - 1945
Dramatising the Diary of Anne Frank - In conversation with Adam Langer
The Dulles Brothers and Eisenhower - 1954
American Empire and the framework of modern capitalism
Soviet Society and the Great Terror: 1937
A revisionist approach to the U-Boat War 1939-45
Nationalism and identity in the Austro Hungarian Army 1914
The afterlife of Leon Trotsky's politics 1940-1982
Explaining History Study Extra: Lenin's Death and its consequences
Churchill, Asquith and Lloyd George - 1916
Explaining History Study Extra: Social division and the origins of Italian fascism
Sir Mark Sykes and the Eastern Question - 1915
Reflections on Neoliberalism in Britain
Revolutionary Violence in Madrid in 1936
East German anti Semitism
Britain's post war strategic questions
Tenth Anniversary Special - Myths of the Blitz
The Croat Spring 1971
Iraq and India - 1941
The Soviet State and the Peasants (Part Two)
Displaced Persons in Germany -1945
The Soviet State and the Peasants
Stalin and Poland - 1939
Journalism, Propaganda and War - Explaining History special
Mobilising the Habsburg Empire: Austria-Hungary and war in 1914
The Nanjing Massacre 1937-38 (Part One)
Update: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and the prospects for reunion
Empire, Fascism and War 1931-39
Rebuilding Germany - 1945
Britain's Convoys, Germany's U-Boats
Update: Roe vs Wade
Update: The long game emerging in Ukraine
Stalin's War (Part One)
Two revolutions and a constitution: In conversation with James Philips
Update: Musk and Twitter
Chiang Kai Shek and war with Japan - 1937 (Part Two)
Chiang Kai Shek and war with Japan - 1937 (Part One)
Update: French fascism defeated at the polls by Macron
Ukraine Update Episode Four: Putin and Zelenskiy's Western Supporters
British national identity in the age of Brexit: Explaining History in conversation with Dominic Selwood
SS mentalities and crimes
Ukraine Report March 2022 (episode Three)
Malta, Rommel and North Africa 1940-43
Ukraine Report March 2022 (episode two)
Ukraine Report March 2022
Eisenhower, atomic testing and the early cold war
China, the Second World War and historical memory (Part Two)
August 4th 1914 - the Reichstag votes for war
Eisenhower and the legacy of the New Deal
China, the Second World War and historical memory
McNamara and Vietnam 1960-68
Eisenhower and the downfall of Joseph McCarthy
Britain's War at Sea 1939-45 Part One - Imperial Overstretch
Richard Nixon and the beginning of the Watergate Scandal 1972-3
German Militarism and Social Cohesion in 1914
Debt, decline and post Prague Spring Eastern Europe 1969-1989
The Indian Army in the Middle East - 1940
Hitler, the Luftwaffe and the 'England Problem' - 1940
Grain seizures and famine during the Great Leap Forward
Harold Wilson and MI6 - 1963-76
De-Maoification 1976-1989
The End by Ian Kershaw - Germany 1944-45
Protest Music and Social Conflict in America (Part Two) 1967-70
Deng Xiaoping and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics 1978
Espionage and the American Communist Party 1945-47
Pravda and the Stalin's Terror - 1937
Protest music and the social conflict in America 1967-70 (Part One)
The experience of military mobilisation in Germany and Austria Hungary 1914
Getting Churchill wrong and the problem of fake history - Explaining History in conversation with Otto English
1937 - The Year of the Great Terror (Part One)
The Motherland Calls - the Soviet Union's Second World War memorials
Maoism, Vietnam and the Domino Theory
Neville Chamberlain's diplomatic and strategic world view - 1937
Poujade and French Postwar Fascism 1945-53
The Indian Army Officer Corps in World War Two
Britain, France and the Middle East - 1956
The Stalinist Showtrials on 1936-7
American Cold War Liberals and the McCarthyite era 1948-57
Thatcherism 1979-2021
Germany's air war over the Netherlands and France: 1940
France, De Gaulle and post war anti fascism 1945-51
Lebensraum, Genocide and Nazi Colonial Utopias 1941-45
Soviet Citizens and the start of the Great Terror- 1937
Schlieffen, Moltke and German strategy 1914
Eisenhower, Korea and the politics of 1950s America
Problematic Histories: Teaching Civil Rights in the UK and the BLM moment
The Eighth Airforce over Germany - Explaining History in conversation with David Dean Barrett
Britain, France and the Mandate System 191-19
Germany and Austria-Hungary's 'war fever' re-examined: 1914
Korea, McCarthy and anti communism
Postwar planning, centralisation and its enemies: 1945
Australia Japan and the Kokoda Trail Campaign
The Tory Right from Enoch Powell to Margaret Thatcher: 1957-1979
Communal kitchens and Mao's Great Famine 1958-61
Stalinist terror and Soviet society: Part One
Britain's media power and broken politics: In conversation with Mic Wright
The origins of the Iran Contra Scandal 1979-82
British Anti Fascism 192936
Austria, Germany and the July Crisis 1914
Poverty, caste and recruitment to the Indian Army during World War Two
France, Britain and the road to Suez 1952-56
The ethnic cleansing of German civilians in Eastern Europe: 1945
Anti Communism in Europe 1917-21
Britain's miners and the causes of the General Strike 1918-26
France and the Syrian uprising 1925
The origins of the Soviet camps 1917-21
Britain, France, Israel and the Suez conspiracy 1956
Anti Slav hysteria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire - July 1914
Poison gas and its long term impact on the 20th Century
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Benn and Great Britain: 1973 - 1983
Rumours, letters and humour in Stalinist Russia 1928-38
The Sino Soviet Split - In conversation with Larry Auton Leaf
Lyndon Johnson and the legacy of JFK - 1963
The Battle of Guadalcanal: Part Two
Aspects of working class life in Britain during the 1930s
Sachsenhausen, Soviet POWs and the origins of the Final Solution
The British Communist Party, Popular Fronts and Spain 1932-36
Guadancanal and Ironbottom Sound
Collaboration and Vengeance in Europe 1945
The Battle of Midway
Britain and the Central African Federation 1951-59
Abandoned children in Stalin's Russia 1928-39
France's road to Dien Bien Phu 1954
French political crisis and the First Indochinese War 1951-54
Hunting Evil: Nazi War Criminals in South America. Explaining History in conversation with historian Guy Walters
German terror bombing and Warsaw 1939
Britain's Europe Referendum 1975
French Politics and the war in Indochina 1949-54
Internationalism vs Anti Communism in America: 1945-7
140 Days to Hiroshima Part Two: Explaining History interview with David Dean Barrett
Ronald Reagan's conservative transition 1954
The US Navy and the Battle of Midway
Pacifism and British Politics 1933-39
Slave labour and the Nazi Armaments Industry 1942-45
Class origin, social stigma and the Stalin Constitution 1935-39
140 Days to Hiroshima: Explaining History Interview with David Barrett
China's Neoliberal Turn - 1978
France, China and Vietnam 1949-51
The aftermath of the fall of the Philippines: May 1942
Poison gas on the Western Front - 1915-18
Leninism and the Communist Party of Great Britain - 1921
The Continuity of Italian fascism after 1945 (Part four)
The post war decades and the neoliberal turn
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part three)
Venizelos, Lloyd George and the Greek annexation of Smyrna: May 1919
Soviet POWs and commissars: 1941
The coup plots against the Wilson Governments 1964-76
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part two)
Nazi Press Laws 1933-36
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945
Betrayal, collapse and the fall of Burma 1942
Mao and the invention of China's landlords
Nationalisation in Britain after 1945
Family Life in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
Britain's Class System in the 1930s
Nazi Propaganda and Radio Broadcasting
US anti communism and the Republican Party 1945-50 (Part One)
The Roots of German and Italian Fascism
German Bombing Raids on London and Paris 1917-18
Comintern agents between the wars
Renunciation in Stalin's Russia
Politics, class and democracy in interwar Britain 1918-39
Czechoslovakia's anti German ethnic cleansing 1945
Special Update: Report on the Coup: Part Two
Truman's Domestic Failures 1945-52
The Origins of Fascism: Part Three
Special Update: Report from the coup August 2019
Stalinist social cleansing 1929-37
The Aftermath of Pearl Harbour 1941
British Society on the eve of World War Two (Part Two)
Maoist social cleansing 1949
Eastern Europe's 'little Stalins' - Ulbricht, Beirut, Rakosi
Talking History: The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
British society during the 1930s
The Nazi Cultural Revolution 1933-39
German and Austro-Hungarian military planning 1906-1914
The Origins of Fascism: Part Two
Spain's state of emergency and the Falange Party - 1934
Britain, America and Palestine 1939-42
Exile and deportation in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
The Nazi Quarry Camps 1938-40
The origins of fascism: part one
Building Mao's police state 1949
Forced labour and the Nazi camp system
Truman and Congress 1945-46
Intelligence gathering and the First World War
Expulsion, disenfranchisement and class war in Stalinist Russia
The RAF, empire and strategic bombing 1918-39
The advance of the fascist right in Spain 1933-4
The Marshall Plan 1947-2
Class persecution and former people in Stalinist Russia 1928-39
American air doctrine and the B-17a bomber
The militarisation of the SS 1933-39
Mao's Famine and Szechuan Province 1958-62
Indian soldiers and the defence of Egypt in 1914-15
Social conflict in Spain 1933
The escalation of the French Vietnamese War 1946-9
Creating a new podcast for Explaining History - an appeal to listeners
The Fall of Singapore 1942
The Truman Doctrine 1947
Nazi Propaganda and the camp system 1933-39
Ernest Bevin and Britain's World Role 1945-48
Britain, France and Vietnam 1945-7
The Fall of Malaya 1941
Mao and 'Red Star over China' 1936
Austria, Germany and popular attitudes in the July Crisis 1914
Churchill's government and the Nazi invasion of the USSR 1941
Soviet Occupation and Liberation 1945
Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Peasants 1918-27
The Nazi Camps and the 'workshy'
The Maoist takeover of China 1949
British decision making and the Dardanelles Campaign 1915
America's cold war cross roads 1946-7
Artillery and Intelligence: Breaking the deadlock 1918
Stalinist consumerism and advertising
Austria, Germany and the Armistice 1918
The Long Telegram and the Iron Curtain Speech: February - March 1946
Lysenkoism, eugenics and the USSR
The British Empire and the Mandate system 1919
Criminal Prisoners in the Nazi Camps
John Lennon and Give Peace a Chance 1969
Hero Culture in Stalin's Russia 1928-41
Talking about Europe - Interview with Jacob Field
The expansion of the Indian Army 1939-43
Harold Wilson and Britain's 'special relationship' with America 1964-5
Truman's foreign policy problems 1945-46
Berlin and Munich in the 1920s
Asocial prisoners in the Nazi camp system
Soviet utopianism and the construction of Stalinist Russia
The Ottoman Empire and the First World War 1914 (PT1)
Roosevelt, Truman and Cold War diplomacy 1944-46
Kazakhstan's Dark Shadows: An interview with journalist Joanna Lillis
Britain and conscription 1945-49
Utopian thinking and everyday life in Stalin's Russia
The Battle of Vittorio Venetto - October 1918
Mao, Stalin and Khrushchev: 1949-57
The Nazi Party and Germany's working class 1933
The Armenian Legionnaires 1914-21
Oswald Mosley and post war British fascism 1945-66
Amateurism, incompetence and the Bolshevik seizure of power
American society and foreign policy 1945-47
Stalinism and the black market 1928-39
Prisoner's experiences in pre war Nazi camps 1933-39
Austria Hungary's Wartime Secret State 1914-18
The baby boom and post war America 1945-64
The British Counter-culture in the 1960s
The Nazi Party and German Monopoly Capitalism
French national pride and empire: 1944
Hunger and the Russian Revolution - 1917
Gandhi, Nehru and wartime crisis - 1940
Saving the Jews of Budapest
Nixon, returning POWs and the legacy of Vietnam
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The Young Turk Revolt 1908
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LLoyd George and the British Empire delegation in Paris 1919
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The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial 1920-1927
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