History Cafe

By: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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  • True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • #20 Hanging on Russia's apron strings - Ep 4 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?

    #20 Hanging on Russia's apron strings - Ep 4 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
    Oct 2 2024
    In 1912 a deal between War Secretary Haldane and the German chancellor Bethmann-Holweg to allow Britain to retain naval supremacy if they both remained neutral (if neither side had started the war), was rudely sabotaged. It involved lying to Cabinet that the Germans were demanding a full-scale Anglo-German alliance, which they weren’t. It meant throwing away what the majority of the Cabinet saw as the best chance to contain Russian expansion, by making common cause with Germany. Russia, allied to the French, could now call all the shots. (R)

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    23 mins
  • #19 Bicycling holidays along the French-Belgian border - Ep 3 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?

    #19 Bicycling holidays along the French-Belgian border - Ep 3 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
    Sep 25 2024
    How did what friendly chats between British and French generals since 1905 turn into a commitment to send a small British Expeditionary Force to France at the start of a war with Germany? A commitment that had not been agreed by Cabinet, Parliament or the Navy? (R)

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    29 mins
  • #18 Spies of the Kaiser - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?

    #18 Spies of the Kaiser - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
    Sep 18 2024
    We look at anti-German hysteria in Britain 1906-1909. The British publishing phenomena of 1906 was The Invasion of 1910 (by Germans), serialised in the Daily Mail and marketed by men walking around London in Prussian uniforms. This chimed perfectly with the anti-German clique at the foreign office. (R)

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    26 mins

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