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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
EProtest 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