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Explaining History

Nick Shepley

How do we make sense of the modern world? We find the answers in the history of the 20th Century.

For over a decade, The Explaining History Podcast has been the guide for curious minds. Host Nick Shepley and expert guests break down the world wars, the Cold War, and the rise and fall of ideologies into concise, 25-minute episodes.

This isn't a dry lecture. It's a critical, narrative-driven conversation that connects the past to your present.

Perfect for students, history buffs, and anyone who wants to understand how we got here. Hit subscribe and start exploring.

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  1. Crossing the Gap – Health Inequality and the Divided City 50:36
  2. Second Hand Bookshops - a secret history 44:06
  3. The unmaking of the British working class 49:18
  4. Stateless Nations – Wales, Catalonia, and the Mezzogiorno 24:38
  5. Gentlemen Amateurs – Staffing the Secret Service in the First World War 28:58
  6. Japanese War Crimes in China 1937-45 27:55
  7. America's withdrawal from Iraq 30:02
  8. A Way of Love – Gay Life in Post-War Britain with Peter Parker 38:04
  9. Bombing Damascus – France, the Mandate System, and the Atrocities of 1925 26:38
  10. India, America and Nehru 1940-41 26:13
  11. Stalin's Statues – Monuments, Memory, and the Theme Parking of History 31:20
  12. Macmillan's Britain – Suez, Decline, and the Winds of Change 1957-60 34:08
  13. MI6 in 1914 26:47
  14. The AFD's advances– Neoliberalism, the Extreme Centre, and the Rise of the Far Right 28:14
  15. Civil Rights After 1980 – The Unfinished Revolution 35:13
  16. The Fall of Baghdad 1917 - Part Two 23:53
  17. The Fall of Baghdad 1917 24:57
  18. Britain Alone – The Hostile Environment and the Remaking of Britishness 28:06
  19. Reforming the Tsar's Army – From Serfdom to Universal Service in Imperial Russia 25:35
  20. Hegseth's War Crimes 26:52
  21. An Exceptional Hatred – Antisemitism, Free Speech, and the American Culture War 37:13
  22. Harold Wilson, Corporatism, and the Paranoia of the British Right 27:33
  23. Trump, Canada and the defence of sovereignty 27:12
  24. Voter suppression and stolen US elections 37:38
  25. From Empire to Neoliberalism – The Long Arc of Capital and the Cannibalisation of the West 27:05
  26. Belgium, America and Congo 1884-1960 31:17
  27. America's Wrong Turn – How Neoliberalism Broke U.S. Healthcare with John McDonagh 38:59
  28. California and the origins of the carceral state 27:52
  29. The International Brigades and the fight for Spain 37:13
  30. Between Two Empires – The Arab Revolts Against the Ottomans in Mesopotamia 30:43
  31. Russia's post communist shock therapy 1991-3 49:24
  32. War and Empire in the 20th Century 32:33
  33. Mamdani, Corbyn and the War Within the Centre-Left 33:28
  34. Quebec's secret biological warfare history 33:38
  35. Belfast and the international networked far right 39:39
  36. Italy from the fascism to post war republic 43:11
  37. Militarism, Masculinity, and the Making of the American Warrior 43:02
  38. The Ottoman March on Egypt 1915 29:57
  39. Adoption, Colonialism, and the Korean War 34:35
  40. The Shortest History of Scotland – Nation, Union, and the Rise of Nationalism 34:30
  41. Trump and Nixon in Beijing - an instructive comparison 30:39
  42. Master of Lies – Anthony Blunt, the Cambridge Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II 40:09
  43. The Neocons Admit Defeat in Iran 26:12
  44. Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes – The Golden Age, the Fall of Communism, and the Crisis of Social Democracy 29:52
  45. The Tsar's Generals and the Press – Russian Military Journalism in the Reform Era 31:05
  46. Austerity Never Ended – The Cultural Politics of Thrift in Modern Britain 25:28
  47. The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel – Oil, Revolution, and the Birth of the Soviet State 38:27
  48. The Death of Britain's Two-Party System – A Century in the Making 34:34
  49. The Transnational Far Right – Hate, Vigilantism, and the Mainstreaming of Extremism 40:20
  50. The Gulf Crisis – Two Theories of American Decline 31:06