*extra* The rise of the East India company and the decline of the Mughal empire.
Episode 1 of the India-Pakistan partition was a quick introduction to centuries of Indian history, but I could not ignore all the details of just the 18th century. There was so much happening! Afgha...
1 Feb 202152min
Partition of India - Pakistan: Part 1; An introduction to the history of India
You have to listen to this! In 1947, Britain effectively abandoned its responsibility to India after a few hundred years of pillaging the wealth from the Asian subcontinent. We'll get to that... But ...
1 Jan 202155min
The Spanish Civil War part II
In Episode 1, I discussed the different players contributing to the rising tensions in the Spanish Republic in the years leading up to 1936. They were the same tensions that were growing across Europ...
22 Juli 202055min
The Spanish Civil War part I
The civil war that ravaged Spain in the years leading up to World War II has been a footnote to the greater conflicts in Europe in the early 20th century. But it had much greater implications; in som...
7 Juni 202053min
The Bosnian War: 1992 - 1995
If you have patiently listened to the first 2 episodes of this series, I hope you feel educated about the long history of this region. The previous hours have been a preparation to help explain what ...
26 Mars 20201h 17min
The Bosnia War; Part 2 the Background
This is the second of a 3 part series on the Bosnian War of the 1990s. Please join me as I delve into the relationship between the nations that make up the former Yugoslavia and give historical cont...
9 Mars 20201h
The Bosnian War; Part 1 A History
In the late 20th century, as the Iron Curtain fell, the nations that made up the country of Yugoslavia began re-evaluating their relationship to one another and opening some old wounds. Bosnia, a nat...
24 Feb 202048min
Rwandan Genocide Part 2
In the early 1990s, the country of Rwanda jumped into the headlines with horrific images and details of what was to become known as the Rwandan Genocide. Part 1 of this podcast explored what happened ...
25 Jan 202056min
