Michael BakerApr 81 minTotal War - Understanding the First World WarThe idea of total war - which has come back into use during the Covid-19 pandemic - is usually associated with the Second World War. In f...
Michael BakerMar 41 minUnknown Warriors - Understanding the First World WarWould Brexit have ever happened if we weren't an island? The idea of European unity is very appealing if, for centuries, your country has...
Michael BakerFeb 261 minUnknown Warriors -Understanding the First World WarFritz Haber, the German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918, was quite a contradiction. By helping develop industrial fertili...
Michael BakerFeb 131 minUnknown Warriors -Understanding the First World WarWe tend to define the First World War as 1914-18, but for most of central/eastern Europe and the Middle East 1918 had no meaning. As huge...
Michael BakerFeb 41 minUnknown Warriors - Understanding the First World WarWhy, over 100 years later, do we still believe that the outbreak of the First World War was greeted with universal enthusiasm in the comb...
Michael BakerJan 31 minUnknown WarriorsAn Understanding History Podcast If you want to read about this unusual WW1 series and the ideas behind it, you can go to the online maga...
Michael BakerDec 6, 20191 minUnknown WarriorsUnderstanding The First World War Memory and remembrance have played a key part in the way we interpret the First World War. But memory ...
Michael BakerDec 4, 20191 minUnknown Warriors Understanding The First World War Until recently, most general histories of the First World War either were narrative accounts or told fr...
Michael BakerDec 3, 20191 minUnknown WarriorsUnderstanding The First World War We think of the First World War as a well defined time span 1914-18, almost as if it took place in some...
Michael BakerDec 2, 20191 minUnknown WarriorsUnderstanding The First World War In the popular British narrative, 1918 is the ‘forgotten year’ of the First World War. Instead, all the...
Michael BakerNov 29, 20191 minUnknown WarriorsUnderstanding the First World War 1.5 million Indians volunteered to fight for the Allied cause during the First World War. And yet the I...
Michael BakerNov 28, 20191 minUnknown WarriorsUnderstanding The First World War Shell shock was unknown before the First World War, but rapidly grew to prominence during the conflict....
Michael BakerNov 27, 20191 minUnknown Warriors Understanding The First World War Despite the fact that in the years before 1914 international conferences had agreed a set of rules to g...
Michael BakerNov 25, 20191 minUnknown WarriorsUnderstanding The First World War: Historians of WW1 now view the conflict through trans-national and global perspectives, not simply the...
Michael BakerNov 23, 20191 minUnknown Warriors Understanding the real First World War Despite the global nature of the First World War, the popular British narrative of the conflict ha...
Michael BakerNov 22, 20191 minUNKNOWN WARRIORSThe Real First World War: Forget the popular British narrative that's prevailed for so long - 10 leading historians tell us what this co...