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Britain, France and the creation of Iraq 1919-21

202

The plot against Harold Wilson - 1967

203

Carter, Reagan, Bush and China

204

Maoism and Anti Imperialism

205

Britain's Broken Media

206

Gaza Update

207

China after Deng (Part One)

208

Discussing Mark Twain's 'Jim'

209

Melting Point: Russian Jews and the journey to Texas

210

The Contradictions of Thatcherism

211

Trump's tariff capitulation

212

Britain, Germany and the Blitz

213

VE Day : London 1945

214

Nazi wartime labour shortages

215

Social change in American post war suburbia

216

The German invasion of Belgium: 1914

217

The historiography of Malcolm X

218

America's post war rise and fall

219

Britain in an age of crisis 2001-2025

220

A Chinese Century?

221

Hollywood, witch hunts and class struggle in LA

222

Last flight out of Saigon - a story from the last days of the Vietnam War

223

China's Neoliberal Turn 1978-89

224

Tariffs, Brexit and the great reorientation

225

Changing interpretations on the Nation of Islam

226

The decline of US Liberal Internationalism

227

Hitler's resource war in Russia - 1941

228

Humans: A Monstrous History

229

Romania in 1918

230

Nazi economic plunder of western Europe PT2

231

Zelenskyy and the US Empire

232

The end of the Anglo American 'special relationship'

233

The decline of the Ottoman Empire Part 1

234

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 15

235

The Atlantic alliance from Roosevelt to Trump

236

Anarchism: A beginners guide Part Four

237

The rise and fall of American soft power

238

Globalisation since the 1990s

239

Trump's Strategic Problems (January '25)

240

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 14

241

Franco's March on Madrid

242

Holocaust Remembrance and Auschwitz

243

Anarchism: A beginners guide Part Three

244

America's boom years - 1950 to 1970 (part two)

245

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 13

246

Prince Harry and the British Press - a media history

247

America's boom years - 1950 to 1970 (part one)

248

Trump 2.0

249

A brief history of Anarchism

250

The Mandate System, Palestine, Syria and Iraq

251

Tiananmen Square 1989 - Part One

252

Civil Rights and the Fragmenting of the New Deal (part 2)

253

Anarchism: A beginners guide Part One

254

Catastrophic Technologies and Cold War Fears

255

Jean Marie Le Pen and the evolution of French Fascism

256

Gorbachev in New York 1988

257

The construction of historical memory

258

War Reporting from Stalingrad

259

America and the reconstruction of global capitalism

260

Trump's oligarchy: A historical perspective

261

The Battle of Stalingrad Part Three

262

Approaches to history Part Ten: Gender History

263

The Battle of Stalingrad Part Two

264

The Battle of Stalingrad Part One

265

Approaches to history Part 9: Marxist Historiography Part Two

266

Racism, Whiteness and Black Britain

267

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 12

268

Lenin and Ukraine 1917-19

269

Civil Rights and the Fragmenting of the New Deal

270

Approaches to history Part 8: Marxist Historiography

271

Making sense of Syria

272

Britain, Abyssinia and appeasement: 1935

273

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 11

274

Paleolibertarianism and MAGA

275

Spreading Stalin's Terror: 1937 - 1938

276

Russian Defeat in Syria

277

Special Report - Syria and the defeat of Assad

278

Empiricism Part Three

279

The development of the Holocaust 1941-1942

280

The economic consequences of Trump

281

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 Part Ten

282

Mao, Deng and the Sino Soviet Split

283

Nazi economic plunder of western Europe and war production crises

284

Approaches to history Part Five: Empiricism continued

285

American Lend Lease to the Soviet Union 1941-42

286

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 9

287

Truman, anti communism and the Marshall Plan

288

Mao, Deng and the Great Leap Forward

289

Approaches to history Part Four: Empiricism

290

China and the west in the 21st Century

291

War Reporting in China and the Pacific 1937-41

292

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 8

293

Black Civil Rights historiography and Booker T Washington

294

Dismantling the state in America and Britain

295

Approaches to history Part Three: Late Medieval History and the Renaissance

296

Declinism, Crisis and Trump

297

Planning the Battle of Britain: Hitler's calculations in the summer of 1940

298

From libertarian to fascist thought

299

AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 7

300

The Austro Hungarian Empire and the First World War - 1914