Versailles #16: OTD 14 Dec 1918 - Coupon Election
ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 14th December 1918 - The Coupon Election secures Lloyd George's Coalition Government.It had long been expected that Lloyd George would call for an election at the end of the w...
14 Dec 201832min
Versailles #15: OTD 13 Dec 1918 - Wilson's Welcome
ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 13th December 1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson lands in France.Woodrow Wilson had a vital role to play in the Treaty of Versailles, and was certainly the most dynamic actor ...
13 Dec 201827min
Versailles #14: David Lloyd George Profile Part 2/2
David Lloyd George's assent to the top of the greasy pole came at a difficult time for Britain and the allied war effort. The war did not appear near its end after all; instead the bloody stalemate ha...
12 Dec 201854min
Versailles #13: David Lloyd George Profile Part 1/2
David Lloyd George, the unlikely Prime Minister, and the only PM in history to have spoken Welsh fluently, comes under our microscope in the final of our profiler episode couplets. Lloyd George's chil...
10 Dec 201859min
Versailles #12: Woodrow Wilson Profile Part 2/2
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points are an integral part of what made the end of the First World War so fascinating, but also so confusing. Did the President want to go easy on Germans for the sake of it...
5 Dec 201841min
Versailles #11: Woodrow Wilson Profile Part 1/2
Welcome to Woodrow Wilson's United States of America. As we build towards a key concept, the Fourteen Points, here we set some background and ask some pertinent questions, such as - why did the US int...
4 Dec 20181h 16min
Versailles #10: OTD 1 Dec 1918 - Birth of Yugoslavia
ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 1st December 1918 - The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is proclaimed by Prince Regent Alexander of SerbiaThis kingdom, known to history as Yugoslavia, was to have a...
1 Dec 201817min
Versailles #9: Eastern Europe Reborn
If finding a solution to Western Europe was difficult, then untangling the morass which was Eastern Europe seemed like mission impossible. Thankfully for those flocking to Paris, Eastern Europeans had...
30 Nov 201855min
