by Talking Humanities | Feb 5, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explains why Soviet troops sang Boer War tunes while fighting Nazi forces. ‘The night is overthrown. The sun is rising. Forward, the Red Navy, forward, Soviet youth!’ The words are pure...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 18, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Dr Susan Williams, whose new book, Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II, centres on the covert race between the Americans and the Nazis to get their hands on all the uranium in the Belgian Congo, reports on a groundbreaking event that put the...
