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Making sense of this crazy world

historymadeeasier

I am a student of history, a teacher of history and a writer of history. You could say history is a passion of mine. I have a website for students and I had been mulling around this idea of a podcast for some time. Would people be interested? Would I make it interesting? That’s essentially what was holding me back. But with a new year starting, the craziness still all around us, I thought what the hell – give it a go, John! The primary purpose of the podcast is to use history to help us make a

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All Episodes

25:35

German Reactions to the Treaty of Versailles

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/06/30

You would be hard pushed to find a single German who didn’t hate the Treaty of Versailles and those who had forced it on their nation; and for many, those who had accepted it: the November Criminals as they were labelled. And that’s what this episode is going to look at, and in doing so, help explain why we had a second world war.

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22:28

Dealing with Germany and Reshaping Europe

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/06/23

As a break from the Middle East, I thought it would be interesting to look at how the allies in Paris dealt with Germany and take in briefly how Europe was reshaped. It seems to me that you would find it interesting as there is no doubt that the Treaty of Versailles, the treaty that dealt with Germany, is a major factor in any explanation of the second world war and all that entailed, whilst the other treaties went a long way to reshape Europe. So, the first of two episodes looking at how Germany

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13:42

Enter Ataturk

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/06/16

I said you would meet Mustafa Kemal or Ataturk properly, well, now’s the time. I’ve given hints of his place in Turkish history and now it’s time to do that properly too. Because you can’t understand modern Turkey and what Erdogan has done with Ataturk’s Turkey unless we go back to what Ataturk established.

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18:04

Dealing with the Turks

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/06/09

This episode is going to take a look at how the peacemakers dealt with Turkey as we shouldn’t underestimate the significance of Turkey today. It has a different relationship to the countries of the Middle East, and Russia too, than do western European countries and America; while it is a member of NATO, and has been since 1952. And that alone makes it very important.

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15:59

Manoeuvrings in Paris

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/06/02

This episode continues our look at the Paris Peace Conference that followed WW1 as it gets down to the nitty gritty of the negotiations that did so much to shape the way the Middle East looks, and feels, today.

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20:52

Manoeuvrings before the Paris Peace Conference

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/05/26

This episode begins a considered look at the manoeuvrings both immediately before and during the Paris Peace Conference, the conference that shaped the world after WW1. Its really important because this conference set in motion the grievances that the Arab world and the Muslim world hold against the West today, and that includes, not only the fact that there is an Israeli state, and the situation in Gaza and the West Bank today, but it also goes a long way to explaining the sorry state of Lebanon

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18:45

British and French manoeuvrings during WW1

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/05/19

The themes of this history so farAllies (that is Britain and France) that didn’t trust each other; indeed, allies that shouldn’t trust each other How British and French imperialism was paying little regard to the needs of those who had lived for generation after generation in the Middle East And the hole Britain was digging itself saying different things to the French, the Arabs and the Zionists

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21:21

How the Middle East was shaped: A line in the sand

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/05/12

In this series I’m going to go back to the Middle East and the roots of the Middle East as we know it today; with all its worrying problems. And to do that, I have to go back to WW1, even before the war, at least a little bit.

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17:35

Explaining Taiwan

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/05/05

I’m going to end this mini-series on history trumping geography with a look at Taiwan because, along with the Korean peninsula, the situation with Israel and the Palestinians and Ukraine, it is one of the spots most likely to cause a major conflict. And it is another part of our world where History has trumped geography.

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19:20

Explaining why we have two Koreas

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/04/28

I’m returning to Asia to end this mini-series on history trumping geography with two episodes that look at parts of the world that could threaten world peace. This week its the Korean peninsula.

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24:29

A divided island

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/04/21

This episode will take us from where we left things in Ireland in 1691 by jumping to the nineteenth century, to the Home Rule Bills and to 1922 and the division of the island of Ireland.

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13:42

Catholic Ireland

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/04/14

This episode is going to explain how the north-east corner of the island of Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom and not Ireland. I’m not going to give anything like a full history of Ireland, that would be interesting but would take many, many episodes, but I must give some key points in Ireland’s history for anything to make sense.

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16:30

Two American made anomolies: Alaska and Guántanamo

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/04/07

How is the most north-easterly tip of the North America continent an American state and not a Canadian province or territory? And sitting as it does on a Caribbean Island, somewhere that could have been the subject of songs, the destination for beach lovers, honeymooners. How did Guantánamo Bay, instead, become one of history’s most notorious detention camps.Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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19:12

The Falkland Islands or Las Malvinas

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/03/31

I’m going to take a look at the rival claims to the Falkland Islands or Las Malvinas. I’m not going to look at the war of 1982, but rather how a group of islands off the southern tip of South America, 800 miles or 1300 kilometres from Britain, is deemed as British.Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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22:10

Where History Trumps Geography: Two Btitish-made...

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/03/24

There’s often a bit of banter in schools between historians and geographers. I remember I had a running “battle” with one colleague, each of us playing tricks on the other, each trying to make fun of the other’s subject whenever we got the chance. One of the things I did was to put a poster up above my classroom door that read “In geography, they colour in maps. In history, we change them.” I dedicate this little series to geographers, and as I do, let me say it’s a great subject, really interesting

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27:53

Something good, something bad, something beautiful

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/03/17

To end this little series looking at Brazil (with lessons to learn for us all), something good, something not good, and something beautiful.Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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15:38

Finding a way back to civilian government

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/03/10

In this episode I’ll look at how the Brazilian military got itself out of the hole it had dug, and got itself out of its political role. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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12:58

The military in power

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/03/03

With America at war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement making some headway (I wouldn’t exaggerate how much), with hippies flocking to San Francisco, and British culture taken over by the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and co; Brazil was taken over by the military. This episode looks at Brazil under the military regime.Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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12:15

The Estado Novo

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/02/25

I’m continuing my look at Brazil and in this episode I’m looking at Getulio Vargas’ Estado Novo or New State.Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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19:32

Towards military dictatorship

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2024/02/18

I’m continuing my look at Brazil and in this episode I’m going to look at Brazil post-empire, tracing the country’s path to dictatorship. We need to appreciate that democracy is not the only means of governing and if we value it, we need to nurture and protect it.

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