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Explaining History

Nick Shepley

Explaining History Podcast: Twenty five minutes of weekly analysis on the 20th Century for students and enthusiasts

  • 32 minutes 37 seconds
    Catastrophic Technologies and Cold War Fears

    During the Cold War a range of liberal and left intellectuals looked at the new technologies born of the Second World War and its aftermath with mounting concern and alarm. Figures like Herbert Marcuse and Theodore Adorno of the Frankfurt School and the Philosopher Martin Heidegger reacted to the destructive power of the atomic bomb and the cultural power of the mass media with fear and pessimism and believed that the world was sleepwalking into catastrophe. In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we speak with Dr Caroline Ashworth of Oxford University about her new book Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought.


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    10 January 2025, 3:51 pm
  • 40 minutes 22 seconds
    Jean Marie Le Pen and the evolution of French Fascism

    The most significant European fascist since Franco, Jean Marie Le Pen, died this week aged 96. This podcast explores the context of the rise of Le Front Nationale, and explores his role within it. Part two will examine how Le Pen used the failings of Mitterand's government in the 1980s to his advantage.


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    8 January 2025, 3:01 pm
  • 24 minutes 57 seconds
    Gorbachev in New York 1988

    In 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev visited the USA on a state visit and experienced celebrity treatment in Times Square in New York as he came to visit the new president elect George H.W. Bush. This episode explores this fateful visit and as the Soviet Union crumbled from within and Gorbachev's formative years and career in the Communist Party its machinery.


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    6 January 2025, 5:23 pm
  • 27 minutes 41 seconds
    The construction of historical memory

    Continuing our Approaches to history series, here are some thoughts on the construction of historical memory.


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    4 January 2025, 5:58 pm
  • 23 minutes 24 seconds
    War Reporting from Stalingrad

    In late 1942 the battle for Stalingrad consumed Nazi Germany's sixth army and both German and Soviet war correspondents attempted to give a picture of the horror and brutality. Western war reporters were unable to reach the battle until it had finished and were escorted through the ruins.


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    3 January 2025, 6:25 pm
  • 28 minutes 27 seconds
    America and the reconstruction of global capitalism

    At the end of the Second World War, European capitalism had been comprehensively devastated by the conflict and America seized an opportunity to rebuild the world economic order in its interests and that of the wider international capitalist class. In today's podcast we explore The Making of Global Capitalism by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin.


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    2 January 2025, 6:15 pm
  • 32 minutes
    Trump's oligarchy: A historical perspective

    Donald Trump is about to introduce the largest concentration of billionaires in history into his cabinet, but this is simply the continuation of a long established oligarchic trend in the White House.


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    31 December 2024, 3:38 pm
  • 28 minutes 46 seconds
    The Battle of Stalingrad Part Three

    The Battle of Stalingrad was the greatest German defeat of the war, consuming the entire German 6th Army and dealing a catastrophic blow to German morale on the home front as the illusion of a possible victory vanished for millions of German civilians. This is the third of a series of Christmas podcasts on the siege and its bloody aftermath:


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    30 December 2024, 2:45 pm
  • 26 minutes 20 seconds
    Approaches to history Part Ten: Gender History

    Throughout the 20th Century, alongside the advancement of women in academia there had been a focus on women's history based on biological sex. However, from the 70s onwards gender history that explores the roles of feminine and masculine gender in different historical moments has been a developing field of research.



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    28 December 2024, 2:15 pm
  • 28 minutes 55 seconds
    The Battle of Stalingrad Part Two

    The Battle of Stalingrad was the greatest German defeat of the war, consuming the entire German 6th Army as Stalin and his generals struggled to adapt to the onslaught and ordered that no Russian, civilian or military, be allowed to retreat. This is the second of a series of Christmas podcasts on the siege and its bloody aftermath:


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    24 December 2024, 4:01 pm
  • 28 minutes 41 seconds
    The Battle of Stalingrad Part One

    The Battle of Stalingrad was the greatest German defeat of the war, consuming the entire German 6th Army as Stalin and his generals struggled to adapt to the onslaught and ordered that no Russian, civilian or military, be allowed to retreat. This is the first of a series of Christmas podcasts on the siege and its bloody aftermath:


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    23 December 2024, 11:46 am
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