Our Histories discusses pivotal moments in our past with experts from the LSE International History Department.
Latest episodes
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33 min
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, Salvado…
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34 min
Nehru's India: Seven Myths
Contributor(s): Taylor C. Sherman | Taylor C. Sherman discusses her forthcoming book, reassessing the Nehru years in Indian history. Here she focuses on Indian socialism as it deve…
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32 min
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 Eu…
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32 min
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
Contributor(s): Dina Gusejnova | Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova explains how a supranational European mentality was fo…
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38 min
Episode 1.4 | The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent
Contributor(s): Matthew Jones | Matthew Jones draws on his official history of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent to discuss the strategic, political and diplomatic considerations…
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34 min
Episode 1.3 | The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
Contributor(s): Megan Black | Megan Black explains how the Department of the Interior - a government organ best known for managing domestic natural resources and operating national…
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19 min
Episode 1.2 | Race Women Internationalists Out of the Vat with Richard Ashcroft
Contributor(s): Imaobong Umoren | Imaobong Umoren discusses the lives of three black activist women: Eslanda Robeson, Paulette Nardal, and Una Marson. She explains how, between the…
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26 min
Episode 1.1 | 1917: War, Peace and Revolution
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 explain…