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Politics and the First World War

The First World War put unprecedented strains on the economic...

A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes...

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...

The second lecture in the series turned to Germany, where...

By December 1941 the Third Reich had reached the apogee...

When Lenin died in 1924, he had effected a temporary...

In the poetry of the Athenian lawgiver Solon, justice (dikē)...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to...

The third lecture in the series asked why so many...

In 1982, Argentina, which had long claimed the Falklands, invaded...