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Explaining History — 972 episodes · page 2 of 10
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