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Politics and the First World War

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

Dramatic increases in life span over the past 300 years...

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

A recent best-seller claims that rapid communication across the world...

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...

The improving survival rates of children, and the freedom to...

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

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