Contributor(s): David Stevenson | David Stevenson discusses the key events of the year 1917, a turning point in the history of WWI and the evolution of the modern world. He explains how the war was transformed during that year, but also what kept it going and why it continued to escalate.
Sep 2021
Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
Contributor(s): Tanya Harmer | Tanya Harmer discusses her recent biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977), revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende. She explains how, inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation influenced ... Show More
33m 23s
Dec 2020
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
Contributor(s): Paul Stock | Paul Stock explores what geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias tell us about literate Britons' understandings of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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31m 30s