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Covers: German and Japanese war aims and calculations; massive Axis victories in Europe and Asia and the reasons for the them; momentous Russian struggle for surival; the tide turned in the Pacific and...
Covers: Gandhi’s early years in London and South Africa; return to India; confronting the Raj - disobedience, tensions; saint and/or politician; assassination and place in history. Presented by Dr D...
Describes the legal procedures and social implications of the murder in April 1972 of Brigitte Dewèvre, a miner’s daughter from the small town in northern France of Bruay-en-Artois.
Covers: Hitler’s early career; Weimar weakness; who supported the Nazis and why; establishment intrigues; consolidation of Nazi power and the purge of the SS in summer 1934. Filmed on location in Munich...
Covers: Stalin’s rise to power; his assault on Russian backwardness; the scale and effect of the purges; Russia and World War II; Stalin’s place in Russian history. Presented by Dr C J Read with...
Looks at the factions that struggled to control the Mediterranean in the late 15th and early 16th-centuries. Covers: Venice in crisis - Turks and Portuguese; conflict spreads to the western Mediterranean;...
A video compilation of archive footage aiming to provide an insight into the lives of Britain’s civilian population during the Blitz (1940-41). Footage from DO IT NOW, BRITAIN CAN TAKE IT, and HEART OF...
Filmed on location in Philadelphia, looks at why the revolt of 1776 took place in what was an apparently a solid British community. Covers: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine; the ‘Declaration of...
Covers: Milner, Kruger, gold; two Boer republics humiliate the British Empire, guerilla and commando versus blockhouse and concentration camp; toll and legacy of war. Presented by Dr J R Smith with Professor...
Traces the origins of the first Restoration playhouses in London from the example of French tennis court theatres in Paris. Shows how Sir William Davenant’s 1661 adaptation of Lisle’s tennis court into a...
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