A History of Europe

A podcast series relating the History of Europe from the Ancient Greeks onwards, each episode centred on a battle and the events surrounding it. By @CarlMRylett

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Germany's Descent into Dictatorship
The Kellogg-Briand pact brings hope for peace in Europe but political instability leads to President Hindenburg choosing his own cabinet sidelining parliament. Hitler's Nazi party break through in elections Sep 1930 https://t.co/nuRFAuHWcW

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New episode on Germany's Weimar Republic.
President Ebert dies of illness, prompting a presidential election, which is won by the former WW1 military commander Paul von Hindenburg. Meanwhile Hitler re-asserts his authority over his party https://t.co/LqAWyLWieC

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New episode - Germany's post WW1 economy struggles at the same time that it faces demands for reparations, creating tensions internationally and within Germany https://t.co/MAiriBaSff

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New podcast episode - Early Weimar Republic

The early years of Adolf Hitler as he becomes politically active. Meanwhile Germany struggles with harsh post-war conditions https://t.co/AJqVpns3r0

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New set of episodes on post WW1 Germany, and the Weimar Republic https://t.co/XOSQpLoHps

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Listen now! Podcast episode on fascism in Italy under Mussolini https://t.co/zDJuqldeSM

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New podcast episode - The rise of Fascism in Italy, and Mussolini's March on Rome https://t.co/dsUbShNN9K

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Podcast - The Irish Civil War 1923-24
A delegation from Ireland meet the British and make an agreement for Irish autonomy but makes a compromise to keep under under the British Crown
The Irish break into 2 sides, one supporting the treaty, one opposing it https://t.co/Ui1TOYQhuC

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Podcast out now! The War of Irish Independence
https://t.co/aAMmsZRBZ5
In January 1919 a group of recently elected Sinn Fien MPs proclaimed the establishment of an Irish Republic and adopted a ‘Declaration of Independence’

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New podcast - Europe After World War One https://t.co/q2e1wYB9rM via @acast

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Out now - Turkish National Struggle 1919-1922. Mustafa Kemal, later known as Ataturk, leads the Turkish Nationalists against the armies of Greece. The Battle of Sakarya River between the Turks and Greeks is a key battle of European history. Listen now! https://t.co/rl0f2FLO2F

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New episode - World War 1 in the Caucasus and Greece

As background to the Turkish National Struggle, this episode describes the events in the Caucasus Mountains in World War One
I also talk about Greece's involvement in World War One.
https://t.co/h3AvMM1auO

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Out Now - Polish-Soviet War - Part 2

The Polish Army make a pre-emptive strike against Soviet Russia. They invade the eastern borderlands, and take large amounts of territory, especially in Ukraine, but they fail to break the Russian army
https://t.co/hZX8COOcs6

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Out Now - The Polish Soviet War

While Western Europe's borders were settled post WW1 fighting still raged elsewhere. The most significant was the Polish Soviet War, which spanned a large area, from Lithuania and Ukraine in the east to Warsaw in the west
https://t.co/riP895ybbZ

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Podcast out now! The Russian Civil War, Conclusion.
The Bolsheviks face numerous opponents across Russia, and struggle to gain control of all lands of the old Tsarist Empire.
The Whites/anti-Bolsheviks make a plan to move on Moscow https://t.co/vxZa9eAYlB

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Out now - Russian Civil War Part 3

Civil War rages across Russia from the north in Murmansk, across the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Far East, as well as in Ukraine and the Caucasus.
Tsar Nicholas II and family murdered by the Bolsheviks
https://t.co/gb1I8JGx4F

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Out now! Russian Civil War Episode 2
The new Bolshevik regime quickly gains control of most of former Russia Empire, but meets stiff resistance in the periphery including Finland, Caucasus, Ukraine, and the Baltic States https://t.co/VqaBEWK6f7

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A History of Europe podcast is back!

https://t.co/h0UFkDPzqc

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Battle of Lake Peipus 1242, Teutonic Knights vs Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod - final part of the series on the Northern Crusades

Fought on 5th April 1242, it was made famous by a Soviet film of 1938 directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

https://t.co/MsjmzCxlp1

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Out now! The conquest of Livonia 1185-1238 https://t.co/HG7nlBZpSD