Explaining History

    The Explaining History Podcast, created and hosted by Nick Shepley, offers a comprehensive exploration of 20th-century history through weekly episodes. For over a decade, this podcast has been providing students and history enthusiasts with in-depth analyses of key events, processes, and debates that shaped the modern world.The podcast covers a wide range of topics within 20th-century history, including:- Major historical events like World Wars I and II, The rise and fall of communism, fascism and imperialism- Political movements and ideologies- Economic developments and crises- Social and cultural changesEpisodes typically run for about 25 minutes, offering concise yet informative discussions...

  • 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

  • Special Update: Report from the coup August 2019

  • The Origins of Fascism: Part Three

  • Stalinist social cleansing 1929-37

  • Maoist social cleansing 1949

  • British Society on the eve of World War Two (Part Two)

  • The Aftermath of Pearl Harbour 1941

  • Talking History: The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

  • Eastern Europe's 'little Stalins' - Ulbricht, Beirut, Rakosi

  • British society during the 1930s

  • The Nazi Cultural Revolution 1933-39

  • The Origins of Fascism: Part Two

  • German and Austro-Hungarian military planning 1906-1914

  • Spain's state of emergency and the Falange Party - 1934

  • Exile and deportation in Stalinist Russia 1928-41

  • Britain, America and Palestine 1939-42

  • The Nazi Quarry Camps 1938-40

  • The origins of fascism: part one

  • Truman and Congress 1945-46

  • Forced labour and the Nazi camp system

  • Building Mao's police state 1949

  • Intelligence gathering and the First World War

  • The RAF, empire and strategic bombing 1918-39

  • Expulsion, disenfranchisement and class war in Stalinist Russia

  • The advance of the fascist right in Spain 1933-4

  • American air doctrine and the B-17a bomber

  • Class persecution and former people in Stalinist Russia 1928-39

  • The Marshall Plan 1947-2

  • The militarisation of the SS 1933-39

  • Indian soldiers and the defence of Egypt in 1914-15

  • Mao's Famine and Szechuan Province 1958-62

  • 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 Truman Doctrine 1947

  • The Fall of Singapore 1942

  • Ernest Bevin and Britain's World Role 1945-48

  • Nazi Propaganda and the camp system 1933-39

  • Britain, France and Vietnam 1945-7

  • Mao and 'Red Star over China' 1936

  • The Fall of Malaya 1941

  • Soviet Occupation and Liberation 1945

  • Churchill's government and the Nazi invasion of the USSR 1941

  • Austria, Germany and popular attitudes in the July Crisis 1914

  • The Nazi Camps and the 'workshy'

  • Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Peasants 1918-27

  • 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

  • The Long Telegram and the Iron Curtain Speech: February - March 1946

  • Austria, Germany and the Armistice 1918

  • 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

  • Saving the Jews of Budapest

  • Gandhi, Nehru and wartime crisis - 1940

  • Nixon, returning POWs and the legacy of Vietnam

  • British working class identity, tv and affluence 1954 -1964

  • Creating the SS Death's Head Division

  • Roosevelt, Stalin and the Creation of the Grand Alliance

  • Defending Afghanistan 1937-1940

  • Japan's Strategic Failures 1940-41

  • Truman's anti communist policy 1945-47

  • French Internment of Spanish Refugees 1939-45

  • Italy and the Paris Peace Conference Part Two

  • Himmler's orders and the SS Camp System 1933-39

  • Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism

  • Italy and the Paris Peace Conference

  • Erich Fromm and the Sane Society 1955

  • Mass consumerism in America 1945-60

  • Rethinking Japan's war against China 1937-45

  • Woodie Guthrie and the Dust Bowl

  • The fall of Damascus and Mesopotamia 1918

  • The Crushing of the Spartacists: 1919

  • Shops and shortages under Stalin 1929-39

  • The Freikorps vs the Red Army - Latvia 1919

  • Billie Holiday and Strange Fruit - 1939

  • The Siege of Leningrad Part Two

  • The problems of American rearmament: 1941

  • War exhaustion and the Central Powers

  • Social Mobility and the American Dream 1945-50

  • Hitler, Goering and the Four Year Plan

  • Lenin's Train to Russia: April 1917

  • The Defence of India -

  • The Siege of Leningrad Pt 1

  • America's post war boom (Part One) 1945-1973

  • Operation Typhoon: Hitler's failed bid to seize Moscow

  • India's Congress Party and the Muslim League: 1939-40

  • David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler: 1936

  • Anti Communism and America's Trade Unions 1945-49

  • Barbarossa Part Six: The end of the offensive

  • The Ottoman Empire and the July Crisis

  • The Origins of MI5 1903-1909

  • SS Training and the Nazi Camp System

  • American War Production and Finance 1917-18

  • The Creation of Yugoslavia 1919 (Part One)

  • Zero Hour: The Soviet Occupation of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw 1945

  • Franco's diplomacy and the defeat of fascism 1941-45

  • Hitler and Hjalmar Schacht

  • Barbarossa Pt 4: Stalin's ultimatum June-July 1941

  • The Butler Education Act 1944

  • Book Review: Babuska's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps by Marcel Krueger

  • Nixon, Reagan and the crisis years of the 1970s

  • Stalinist secrecy and paranoia 1928-38

  • War Correspondents and Operation Barbarossa 1941

  • Roosevelt, Churchill and Lend Lease

  • Truman and the Taft Hartley Act 1947

  • Barbarossa Part Three: The USSR and the Invasion

  • American Volunteers and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War

  • Woodrow Wilson and the founding of the League of Nations

  • Cold War assumptions and the beginning of the Korean War

  • The development of Nazi economic policy 1920-32

  • Churchill and the Russian Civil War 1919

  • Marx's legacy and the German Social Democratic Party

  • British, American and Chinese Neoliberalism 1978-80

  • Barbarossa Part Two: Hunger and annihilation

  • Allied Divisions over Russia - 1919

  • A plan for 2018: Free Historical Literacy For All...

  • Operation Barbarossa: Part One

  • British setbacks in the Desert War 1941-42

  • Russian proto-fascism 1903-7

  • Britain, Pakistan and the Partition of India

  • Austria after the Anschluss 1938-45

  • Britain's war with Nazi Germany and Vichy France in Iraq and Syria: 1941

  • The origins of Stalinist purges and show trials

  • Roosevelt, Wilkie and the 1940 Presidential Election

  • Hitler's Reich Governors

  • Lenin and the founding of the British Communist Party: 1920

  • The fall of Greece and Crete 1941

  • Chiang, Mao and the battle for China 1945-49 (Part One)

  • Sachsenhausen, Dachau and the later Nazi Camps 1936-39

  • The Crisis of American Labor Unions 1945-50

  • Mussolini's War in Greece: 1940-41

  • The Politics of Stalinism Part Two

  • The Bolsheviks and the Peacemakers 1919

  • American Labour Militancy 1945-46

  • Eisenhower, the CIA and the death of Stalin

  • Hitler's Civil Service

  • Britain's early victories in the desert war 1940-41

  • The rights of American Women 1945-55

  • The Politics of Stalinism Part One

  • Booker T Washington and the Jim Crow Era

  • Hitler's personality and German Government

  • Bolshevik Russia and the Paris Peacemakers - 1919

  • The Italo Turkish War

  • American and British Volunteers at the Battle of Jarama, 1937

  • America, USSR, Britain and the development of the atomic bomb

  • Hitler and the creation of the 'Fuhrer State'

  • The Fall and Rise of European Tensions 1909-11

  • The Nazi Party 1933

  • Franco's march on Madrid: 1936

  • The CIA and early anti Soviet Operations

  • Emerging Nations and the Paris Peace Conference

  • The Office of the Fuhrer

  • An appeal to listeners on the thorny issue of hate speech

  • Slavery, Cotton and Capitalism

  • The Supreme Council of the Paris Peace Conference 1919

  • Racism and Black Americans 1945-48

  • The Arabs and the Palestine Mandate

  • Japan and the First World War

  • British Air Raid Precautions 1938-1940

  • Japan's Merchant Shipping Losses 1941-45

  • Beginning the Battle for North Africa: 1940

  • The USSR and the aftermath of the Six Day War

  • War Reporting 1939

  • The First Day of the Blitz: Britain, September 1940

  • Franco German cooperation 1926-32

  • Hitler's decision making 1940-1941

  • David Ben Gurion and Palestine 1945-48

  • World War One and the creation of the Mandate system

  • The Battle of Britain Part Two

  • The overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the Ottoman Empire 1909

  • Black Americans and Civil Rights in 1945

  • Rethinking Stalin's Gulags

  • Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain Part One

  • Adenauer, Schumacher and West German De-Nazification: 1949

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Part Two

  • The Young Turk Revolt 1908

  • LLoyd George and the British Empire delegation in Paris 1919

  • Britain, America and the aftermath of Dunkirk

  • The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial 1920-1927

  • America, Palestine and Jewish Immigration 1945-48

  • Journalists and the Spanish Civil War

  • The Fall of France Part One

  • Georges Clemenceau and the Paris Peace Conference 1919

  • Hitler, Franco and the Spanish Civil War

  • Mao'hird Front 1964-1980

  • Hitler's Invasion of Norway: April 1940

  • War Reporting on the Western Front 1914-15

  • Churchill's 'Fight Them On The Beaches' Speech June 1940

  • Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference 1919

  • British Propaganda and the First World War

  • China in 1945

  • Churchill and Roosevelt 1939-1940

  • Stalin, Mao and the Korean War

  • Foreign workers in Hitler's Germany 1939-45

  • Pre War German Jewish Culture and Indentity

  • Maoist Re-education and China's Youth

  • Truman and the founding of the CIA - 1947

  • Australia and Asia in the 1960s

  • The BBC and the General Strike 1926

  • Hunger and Division in Germany 1916-18

  • Roosevelt and Chamberlain 1939-1940

  • Eastern Europe after Stalin 1953-1989

  • Book Review: British National Identity

  • Prohibition in America 1918-1933

  • Germany, Austria and the July Crisis 1914

  • The Allied Bombing of Germany 1940-1945

  • China's Self Strengthening Movement 1860-1895

  • The decline and fall of the 20th Century Manifesto

  • Book Review: Reagan: American Icon by Iwan Morgan

  • Europe's Age of Catastrophe 1914-1945

  • Book Review: The Winchester - legend of the west

  • The Myth of Hitler's Economic Success

  • Britain's Forgotten Depression 1920-21

  • Book Review: Gotham Rising

  • Mao and the Red Guards: 1966.

  • Palestine, India and Britain: Two partitions and the end of empire

  • Book Review: Black Power and the American People

  • Public Opinion and International Relations 1890-1914

  • Book Review: Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner

  • 1979 and the birth of neoliberalism

  • IG Farben and the Holocaust

  • War and British National Identity in the 20th Century

  • Stalin and the Soviet Bomb 1945-49

  • Bretton Woods 1944-1971

  • Mao, Khrushchev and the Great Leap Forward

  • 2017 Exams Special: Expert study advice with Lucy Parsons

  • The World Recession in the 1970s

  • French Fascism 1919-1939

  • Japan, war and hardship 1937-41

  • The Fate of Europe's Collaborators - 1945

  • Kennedy, the CIA and Vietnam 1960-1963

  • India and the outbreak of war 1939

  • The Battle of Amiens, 1918

  • Hitler and the Catholic Church 1933-37

  • Radical Politics and British Pop Music 1976-87

  • From Tito to Milosevic - the breakup of Yugoslavia

  • Nixon, Reagan and the war on drugs 1971-1989

  • Class Warfare in Spain 1918-1931

  • Calcutta and the Indian Partition 1946

  • Britain's changing wartime relationship with its colonies

  • Black Radical Politics in Inter War Harlem

  • Spain, Stalin and European Communist Parties in the 1930s

  • Post War British Sexual Politics 1945-1971

  • Tito and Yugoslavia in 1945

  • Stalin, showtrials and terror 1936-38

  • Engels and the Condition of the Working Class in England

  • Churchill and the Bombing of Bulgaria 1941-44

  • Railways, Revolution and Sun Yat Sen: 1860-1925

  • Britain's Interwar Press Barons

  • The Battle of Tsushima and its aftermath

  • The Development of the Nazi Concentration Camps

  • Western Intellectuals and Mao's China

  • Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980

  • The British Labour Movement 1880-1914

  • The Democratic National Convention 1968

  • Antonio Gramsci

  • East German Anti Semitism 1949

  • MacArthur and Japan

  • The Fall of Budapest

  • Poland, Palestine and Zionism

  • The Counterculture and the 1960s

  • Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation

  • John Maynard Keynes and the American Loan

  • Rudolf Hoess

  • Lawrence of Arabia

  • American Suburbia and Segregation

  • Britain's Role in Vietnam 1945

  • Women's political publishing 1850-1918

  • France's Empire between the world wars

  • The Partition of India 1947

  • India in 1945

  • Stalinist Architecture

  • Harry Truman 1945

  • Nixon and Kissinger 1968-74

  • Subhas Chandra Bose

  • The Tories and the Miners 1970-1984

  • Asia after the atomic bomb

  • America in 1945

  • British and American Journalists and the Russian Revolution

  • Romania, Communism and the Holocaust

  • Thatcher, AIDS and sexual politics in the 1980s

  • Goebbels and Total War

  • The Ku Klux Klan 1915-24

  • The Berlin Wall 1961

  • John Lennon in America: 1970-73

  • The Origins of Mao's Cultural Revolution

  • Erich Fromm

  • East Germany and the Sino Soviet Split

  • The Creation of the Red Army

  • Churchill and Greece

  • Menachim Begin and Irgun

  • Evacuation

  • Hunger, housing and the First Five Year Plan

  • Lyndon Johnson 1963-64

  • Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980

  • The Representation of the People Act 1918

  • Inflation 1916-1923

  • Orde Wingate and Palestine

  • Ukraine 1918

  • Stalinist Consumerism

  • Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign

  • The Berlin Crisis 1961

  • Britain's Labour Government 1945-51

  • The Fall of Budapest, 2945

  • Poland, Palestine and Zionism

  • The Bandung Conference

  • Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation

  • Mao and China's Peasants

  • The Amritsar Massacre

  • Rudolf Hoess

  • The Congress of Berlin

  • The Frankfurt School

  • The Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe 1944-50

  • Wilson, Roosevelt and the USSR

  • The Easter Rising 1916

  • Women's Political Publishing 1850-1918

  • The Liberal Government and the First World War

  • The Red Summer 1919

  • China and the First World War

  • Mussolini's Cult of Personality

  • The Potsdam Conference

  • The Wannsee Conference

  • Harold Wilson's Government 1964-70

  • Europe In 1945

  • The Yalta Conference

  • The Tehran Conference

  • Leni Riefenstahl

  • Prohibition

  • The Profumo Scandal

  • The Nazi Soviet Pact

  • The Washington Naval Conference

  • The Long Term Causes of the Suez Crisis

  • Britain, Russia and the Eastern Question

  • Weimar Germany's Roaring 20s

  • Oswald Mosley

  • Friedrich Hayek

  • The Russian Civil War

  • Lenin's Red Terror 1918

  • The Provisional Government: Russia 1917

  • The Casablanca Conference

  • Dien Bien Phu

  • Kruschev and the Secret Speech 1956

  • Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

  • The Heath Government 1970-74

  • The Scramble For China

  • The Baader Meinhof Gang

  • Strength Through Joy

  • British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

  • The Murder of Matteotti

  • The Balfour Declaration

  • Mussolini and the March On Rome

  • The Origins Of Italian Fascism

  • British Labour History in the 19th Century

  • The WWII origins of the Vietnam War

  • Trotsky In Mexico

  • Japan's First Defeats 1942-43

  • The Five Year Plans and the Stakhanovites

  • The Fellow Travellers

  • Terrorism, Anarchism and Russia's Intelligentsia

  • The German Revolution 1918

  • Theodor Herzl

  • De-Nazification

  • Germans and the Holocaust

  • The Battle Of The Atlantic

  • Lend Lease

  • The Marshall Plan

  • The Truman Doctrine

  • Stalin and Trotsky

  • Women, Children and Families after 1917

  • The February Revolution

  • Russia and the 1905 Revolution

  • Russia's Aristocracy

  • The Aftermath of the Russian Civil War

  • Germany's defeat in 1918

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