Crowdtalks History

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Crowdtalks examines history from both serious and trivial perspectives of the past. We publish longer more detailed analyses of historical topics in our special episodes and slighter less important topics in our weekly History in Minutes broadcast.

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History in Minutes: Historian Profile 21 July 2025

In this episode we explore the work of renowned Canadian historian Professor Bruce Trigger. Trigger was one of Canada's leading archaeologists from the 1960's to the early 2000s. He worked extensively in anthropology and ethnohistory at McGill University.

Jul 21, 2025•6 min•Season 1Ep. 7

History in Minutes: New Film and TV 15 July 2025

This week we survey recent releases in film and TV. Joy, an account of the early IVF program from Netflix is presented along with September 5 a new interpretation of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games attack by Palestinian terrorists. The last release is William Tell, the story of Switzerland's epic folk hero who shot the apple on his son's head.

Jul 15, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 6

History in Minutes: New Books 8 July 2025

This episode of History in Minutes completes a short overiew of recent releases historical works. Shane Appel the presenter surveys three new contemporary releases from Amazon's new realeases list and Cambridge University Press. Want to get in touch? Email crowdtalks@proton.me

Jul 07, 2025•6 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Studies in Foreign Policy: The Origins of Collective Security Part 2

The great experiment of collective security commences but is immediately setback by the complex post-war political environment. In this part we consider the transition of geopolitics to the new model of global stability only to see it fail as the world hurtles towards a new world crisis. Out of the ashes of the Second World War, collective security rises again and the influence of Franklin Roosevelt's support discussed. The United Nations is created to carry forth the hopes and ideals of the col...

Jun 29, 2025•53 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Studies in Foreign Policy: The Origins of Collective Security Part 1

Forged in the fires of the First World War, collective security was a new idea to manage geopolitics advocated by the US President Woodrow Wilson. Promoted as a way to stabilise international relations its suporters claimed that that the world would be safer and the tragedy of future world crisis could be avoided. This first part focusses on its orgins and competition with significant exploration of the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919. Want to get in touch? Email crowdtalks@proton.me...

Jun 29, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 3

Palestine-Sinai Campaign of World War I: Part 1

How did Britain come to conquer Palestine during the First World War? We journey back to the Great War in this informative podcast to consider the British military campaign to oust the Ottoman Empire from the holy land and seize Jerusalem by Christmas 1917. This first part examines the significant backstory to the invasion, the skirmishing in the Sinai peninsula and the tensions in war strategy between Cairo and London. The Australian participation, the leadership of Sir Edmund Allenby and the s...

Jun 29, 2025•49 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Imperialism: an Introduction

Imperialism was once the main paradigm of foreign policy and this introductory podcast for beginners seeks to explain why. For over five millennia nations and states would seek to ruthlessly dominate their opponents, and no post-agrarian culture was immune from the temptations of imperial practice. Using war and colonisation, states acted without restraint. But by the 20th Century imperialism was under serious attack s a state practice. This podcast explores why old imperialism became so unfashi...

May 24, 2025•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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