Contributor(s): Tanya Harmer | Tanya Harmer discusses her recent biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977), revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende. She explains how, inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation influenced developments in Chile, and how the terrible consequences of the coup …

Today we’re joined by David the host of the Cold War channel on Youtube, one of the biggest channels creating historical documentaries about the Cold War in the social media space, to discuss how academics can engage better with the general public and improve the communication of historical research.…

On todays episode we speak with Professor Piers Ludlow, The head of the International History Department at the London School of Economics. His main research interests lie in the history of Western Europe since 1945, in particular the historical roots of the integration process and the development of the EU. Today we will cover the US relationship …

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 developed during Jawaharlal Nehru's premiership, and explains how it was shaped by the experience of colonialism and the national movement.Nehru's India: Seven Myths is due o…

This week we are joined by Prof Sergey Radchenko to discuss the of tumultuous relationship between the two major superpowers of the communist world during the Cold War. The People's Republic of China and the USSR.Sergey Radchenko is the Director of Research and Professor of International Relations at the University of Cardiff. He is an expert on Si…

Joining us for this episode to discuss the Cuban and Chilean Revolutions during the Cold War is Dr Tanya Harmer, and expert on the Latin American left. She has written widely on Chilean and Cuban Revolution’s influence in Latin America, counter-revolutions and inter-American diplomacy, solidarity networks, women and gender in Latin America. Her lat…

Episode 3: Dr Roham Alvandi - The Shah of Iran: Dr Roham Alvandi is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of two books, the first Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best history books of 2014. He is also the editor and author of The Age of Arya…

Prof Spohr is one of the world's leading experts on both Cold War Germany and the end point of the Cold War. This week on the LSE Cold War Podcast we tackle the latter. Discussing ideas from her recent book "Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World the World After 1989" we discuss the final years of the Soviet Union, what led to its collapse, t…

This week, on our inaugural episode of the LSE Cold War Podcast, Jack Basu-Mellish interviews Prof Arne Westad, one of the world’s leading historians of the Cold War. Arne Westad is the co-founder of LSE IDEAS, a world leading think tank which began as the LSE Cold War Studies Project in 2004. He is now the Elihu Professor of History and Global Aff…

Contributor(s): Paul Stock | Paul Stock explores what geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias tell us about literate Britons' understandings of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For further information about the Department of International History please visit www.lse.ac.uk/International…

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 forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their subjects expired. Sh…

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 that compelled UK governments, in the face of ever-increasing pressures on the defence budget, to persist in their efforts to develop nuclear weapons and to deploy a cred…

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 parks - has constantly supported and projected American powerBy Megan Black

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 1920s and the 1960s, the trio participated in global freedom struggles by traveling; building networks in feminist, student, black-led, anticolonial, and antifascist org…

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 explains how the war was transformed during that year, but also what kept it going and why it continued to escalate.By David Stevenson