A podcast series relating the History of Europe from the Ancient Greeks onwards, each episode centred on a battle and the events surrounding it. By @CarlMRylett
Joined May 2016
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New episode out - Central and Eastern Europe in the Interwar Period. A focus on Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
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Podcast out now -
Ramsay McDonald, Britain's First Labour Prime Minister, ends up demonised by his own party. Also, the General Strike, the Wall street Crash, and society trends in 1920's Britain - technological advances and the growth of suburban towns shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
Podcast out now
The 1920s was a watershed in the political history of Britain with the first Labour Government of 1923-1924, led by Ramsay MacDonald #Labour shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
The 1920s was a key decade in British history, marked by the struggle to cope with post-war challenges, and the transition away from a society led by aristrocats. A key figure was Liberal leader, Prime Minister David Lloyd George shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
Germany's Descent into Dictatorship
The Kellogg-Briand pact brings hope for peace in Europe but political instability leads to President Hindenburg choosing his own cabinet sidelining parliament. Hitler's Nazi party break through in elections Sep 1930 bit.ly/44aDElK
New episode on Germany's Weimar Republic.
President Ebert dies of illness, prompting a presidential election, which is won by the former WW1 military commander Paul von Hindenburg. Meanwhile Hitler re-asserts his authority over his party bit.ly/4vQSCcP
New episode - Germany's post WW1 economy struggles at the same time that it faces demands for reparations, creating tensions internationally and within Germany shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
New podcast episode - Early Weimar Republic
The early years of Adolf Hitler as he becomes politically active. Meanwhile Germany struggles with harsh post-war conditions shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
New set of episodes on post WW1 Germany, and the Weimar Republic shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
Listen now! Podcast episode on fascism in Italy under Mussolini shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
New podcast episode - The rise of Fascism in Italy, and Mussolini's March on Rome shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
Podcast - The Irish Civil War 1923-24
A delegation from Ireland meet the British and make an agreement for Irish autonomy but makes a compromise to keep under under the British Crown
The Irish break into 2 sides, one supporting the treaty, one opposing it open.acast.com/networks/60ee…
Podcast out now! The War of Irish Independence
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In January 1919 a group of recently elected Sinn Fien MPs proclaimed the establishment of an Irish Republic and adopted a ‘Declaration of Independence’
New podcast - Europe After World War One shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu… via @acast
Out now - Turkish National Struggle 1919-1922. Mustafa Kemal, later known as Ataturk, leads the Turkish Nationalists against the armies of Greece. The Battle of Sakarya River between the Turks and Greeks is a key battle of European history. Listen now! shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
New episode - World War 1 in the Caucasus and Greece
As background to the Turkish National Struggle, this episode describes the events in the Caucasus Mountains in World War One
I also talk about Greece's involvement in World War One.
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Out Now - Polish-Soviet War - Part 2
The Polish Army make a pre-emptive strike against Soviet Russia. They invade the eastern borderlands, and take large amounts of territory, especially in Ukraine, but they fail to break the Russian army
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Out Now - The Polish Soviet War
While Western Europe's borders were settled post WW1 fighting still raged elsewhere. The most significant was the Polish Soviet War, which spanned a large area, from Lithuania and Ukraine in the east to Warsaw in the west
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Podcast out now! The Russian Civil War, Conclusion.
The Bolsheviks face numerous opponents across Russia, and struggle to gain control of all lands of the old Tsarist Empire.
The Whites/anti-Bolsheviks make a plan to move on Moscow shows.acast.com/ahistoryofeu…
Out now - Russian Civil War Part 3
Civil War rages across Russia from the north in Murmansk, across the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Far East, as well as in Ukraine and the Caucasus.
Tsar Nicholas II and family murdered by the Bolsheviks
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