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Hi everyone, it’s been a while since my last post as I’m working on a new textbook on Chinese history, but here’s just one of the many video’s I’ll post on the next few days by way of compensation. It’s a recording on a very volatile period in British labour history in the three decades before World War One. <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/202TczyWs7U&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><
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In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, railways and steam boats became tools for European powers to colonially exploit a weakened China. Following the 1911 revolution however, rail became a key device by the nationalist Sun Yat Sen to unify a chaotic and fissile country. Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Support the Show & Get Ex
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In the 1920s and 1930s the ownership of Britain’s newspapers concentrated in an ever smaller number of hands. Lords Northcliffe, Rothermere and Beaverbrook were able to wield unprecedented political power because they had captured a mass audience of readers. They advanced their own political agendas and existed on the far right of the political spectrum in an age of political uncertainty and crisis. Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and exper
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In 1905 the destruction of the Russian fleet by the Japanese sent political and cultural shockwaves throughout the world. Colonised Asia saw weaknesses in European power that had hitherto never been revealed. The implications for European colonial powers like Britain and France were significant. Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Supp
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In March 1933 the arrest of thousands of communists, socialists and trade unions saw the birth of Hitler’s concentration camp system. However, the idea that the camps were a product of an ordered and planned seizure of power should be revised as new evidence suggests that the camps grew out of chaos and the autonomous actions of the SA.****The new A level history series that gives teachers some fresh perspectives and new energising ideas for their lessons will start on October 19th with the firs
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