Our Histories
Podcast series
Our Histories is an interview series conducted by Dr Artemis Photiadou. She discusses pivotal moments in modern history with experts from the LSE International History Department. Each episode is devoted to the research conducted by one of our faculty members.
1917: War, Peace and Revolution
David Stevensondiscusses 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. | Read the transcript in the Department's blog.
Race Women Internationalists
Imaobong Umorendiscusses 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 organizations; and forging alliances with key leaders. This made them race women internationalists—figures who engaged with a variety of interconnected internationalisms to challenge various forms of inequality facing people of African descent across the diaspora and the continent.
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
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 power.
The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent
Matthew Jonesdraws 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 credible nuclear force.
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnovaexplains 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. She discusses a group of German-speaking intellectuals of aristocratic origin who became pioneers of Europe's future regeneration.
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
Paul Stockexplores what geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias tell us about literate Britons' understandings of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
Tanya Harmerdiscusses 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 drained Beatriz of the dreams she once had.
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Our Historiesis produced with the generous help from an LSE’S KEI fund.