Stateless Nations – Wales, Catalonia, and the Mezzogiorno
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by Sam Parry of Cardiff Metropolitan University to discuss the concept of s...
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The Explaining History Podcast has been exploring the 20th Century in weekly chapters for the past 10 years, helping students and enthusiasts engage with the past. With the help of expert gu...
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20 of 972 episodesGentlemen Amateurs – Staffing the Secret Service in the First World War
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we return to Keith Jeffery's official history of MI6 to examine a question that gets to t...
Japanese War Crimes in China 1937-45
China’s war against Japan was one of the largest, bloodiest and most consequential theatres of the Second World War — yet it is still too of...
America's withdrawal from Iraq
In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we examine the American withdrawal from Iraq – the product of Trump's war with Iran,...
A Way of Love – Gay Life in Post-War Britain with Peter Parker
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by historian Peter Parker to discuss the remarkable rediscovery of James Co...
Bombing Damascus – France, the Mandate System, and the Atrocities of 1925
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we return to Susan Pedersen's *The Guardians* – the definitive history of the mandate sys...
India, America and Nehru 1940-41
**In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore Srinath Raghavan's brilliant *India's War: The Making of Modern South A...
Stalin's Statues – Monuments, Memory, and the Theme Parking of History
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore Keith Lowe's *Prisoners of History* and the contested world of memorialisation...
Macmillan's Britain – Suez, Decline, and the Winds of Change 1957-60
In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the Macmillan years – that remarkable, contradictory period of post-war B...
MI6 in 1914
MI6 and the First World War – The Birth of the Secret State In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the origins of MI6...
The AFD's advances– Neoliberalism, the Extreme Centre, and the Rise of the Far Right
In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we examine the recent electoral victory of the Alternative for Germany (AFD) in the...
Civil Rights After 1980 – The Unfinished Revolution
# Episode Description In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we tackle one of the most persistent problems in how we teach...
The Fall of Baghdad 1917 - Part Two
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we continue our exploration of Eugene Rogan's masterful The Fall of the Ottomans , examin...
The Fall of Baghdad 1917
The Fall of Baghdad In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we continue our exploration of Eugene Rogan's masterful The Fall...
Britain Alone – The Hostile Environment and the Remaking of Britishness
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the transformation of British society since Brexit – a story of the weaponisat...
Reforming the Tsar's Army – From Serfdom to Universal Service in Imperial Russia
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore one of the most significant transformations of 19th-century Russia: the introd...
Hegseth's War Crimes
Hegseth's War – The Catastrophic Consequences of Maximum Lethality In this week's solo episode, I examine a ProPublica investigation into Pe...
An Exceptional Hatred – Antisemitism, Free Speech, and the American Culture War
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by James Loeffler, the Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Jo...
Harold Wilson, Corporatism, and the Paranoia of the British Right
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the life and legacy of Harold Wilson – the most successful Labour Prime Minist...
Trump, Canada and the defence of sovereignty
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, I examine the extraordinary diplomatic demands the United States has placed on Canada – d...