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It’s my mission in 2025 to unpack ideologies and navigate their complex fluid nature, contradictions, theorists and explanations of the world. In January we’re starting with anarchism and this is the first part of a series of podcasts exploring what exactly anarchism is and what anarchists believe. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supportin
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Continuing our Approaches to history series, here are some thoughts on the construction of historical memory.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership hereOrYou can support the podcast via Patreon hereOr you can just say some nice things about it hereExplain
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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. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership hereOrYou can s
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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. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please
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Karl Marx is the most influential figure in the production of 20th Century history texts, influencing Marxist and non Marxist historians alike. This is the first part of our exploration of his significance and the debates surrounding his legacy.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, y
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Karl Marx is the most influential figure in the production of 20th Century history texts, influencing Marxist and non Marxist historians alike. This is the first part of our exploration of his significance and the debates surrounding his legacy.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, y
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The sudden collapse of the Assad regime and the actions and intentions of the regional and global powers involved present us with strange contradictions, but we must also be aware of the terrible human cost of the conflict as tens of thousands of Syrians and other nationals remain in squalid concentration camps across the country, the final victims of ISIS. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and wou
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This is a special one off podcast episode on the key events of the last 24 hours in Syria, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.I will be running a livestream Q&A for students on Wednesday November 20th. You can access it here, subscribe to the channel to get your reminder.https://youtube.com/live/knBuNLBD-bU?feature=share (in case the link doesn’t work)Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and
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In this episode we continue to explore the historical practices associated with empiricism, and we’re reading from The Houses of HistoryI will be running a livestream Q&A for students on Wednesday November 20th. You can access it here, subscribe to the channel to get your reminder.https://youtube.com/live/knBuNLBD-bU?feature=share (in case the link doesn’t work)Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and
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In this episode we continue to explore the historical practices associated with empiricism, and we’re reading from The Houses of History I will be running a livestream Q&A for students on Wednesday November 20th. You can access it here, subscribe to the channel to get your reminder.https://youtube.com/live/knBuNLBD-bU?feature=share (in case the link doesn’t work)Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content an