Professor Julia Lovell discusses her recent book Maoism: A Global History, which has just won the prestigious Cundill History Prize. In the conversation Julia explores the nature of Mao’s ideology and how it has shaped China and many other countries around the world. Historyextra.com/podcast
For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacyFrom mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
Life on Britain’s WW1 home front
The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know
How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy
Big questions of the Crimean War: the build up
The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life
How germs shaped human history
Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany
The Luddites: everything you wanted to know
Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
Cornwall: a brief history
Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
The myth and memory of Waterloo
Coffee history: everything you wanted to know
Caesar: Death of a Dictator Trailer
Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes
Living through the Troubles
What can we learn from the fall of Rome?
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the overlooked bonds between mother & daughter
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Gone Medieval
Dan Snow’s History Hit
History Daily
Not Just the Tudors
The WW2 Podcast