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...
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20 of 965 episodesMacmillan'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...
Voter suppression and stolen US elections
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by David F. Walbert, a veteran voting rights attorney whose new book, Steal...
From Empire to Neoliberalism – The Long Arc of Capital and the Cannibalisation of the West
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we step back from the specific history of Congo to examine the broader theoretical framew...
Belgium, America and Congo 1884-1960
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we begin a journey into one of the darkest and most overlooked chapters of the 20th centu...
America's Wrong Turn – How Neoliberalism Broke U.S. Healthcare with John McDonagh
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by John McDonagh, professor of practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Publ...
California and the origins of the carceral state
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore a little‑known chapter of American history: the establishment of California's...
The International Brigades and the fight for Spain
The International Brigades and the Fight for Spain **In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by Tony Fox, organiser...
Between Two Empires – The Arab Revolts Against the Ottomans in Mesopotamia
In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the complex dynamics of the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War –...