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The last two weeks of February 1919 were awash with legions of issues, hurt feelings, long winded speeches and too many other details to possibly count. We've already seen the perio...
2019-02-28 19:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Spare a thought for poor old Harold Nicolson...
Mr Nicolson was a senior clerk in the British Foreign Office, and by mid-February 1919, he had already had his patience s...
2019-02-23 23:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today in history, a deranged assailant attacked the father of victory, plunging France and all of Europe into a panic, and setting off the next phase of the Paris Peace Confer...
2019-02-19 20:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today we bravely venture to where this podcast normally steers clear - American politics. This is an essential trip though, because we must examine what happened in the US once the ...
2019-02-17 16:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Oh boy, this is gonna be a good one! Episode 5 of the Delegation Game examines the aftermath of some pretty important deals which were passed, by hook or by crook, and which now cha...
2019-02-16 22:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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OTD in history 100 years ago – the League of Nations was given a covenant, stamped and signed with seals of approval from all the attending allied powers...
2019-02-14 18:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Gathering together on 12th February, time was of the essence, a fact which had certainly been relevant before, but which the allies had still somehow managed to essentially ignore. ...
2019-02-12 21:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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You know the story of 'plucky little Belgium', but what about the Belgium after the war? After all they had been through, facing the might of the German Army in its initial unrelent...
2019-02-11 20:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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The latest episode of the project hones in on three specific days – the 8, 9 and 10 of February 1919, as we build up to the moment when David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson retur...
2019-02-10 19:50:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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The latest instalment of the game sees everyone feeling somewhat traumatised from the massacre at the Hotel Twamley, but the show must go on! Schemes were afoot even as the Canadian...
2019-02-09 19:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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In episode 33, we assess the day of 7th February, where the allies attempted to respond to what the Germans had done the previous day of 6th Feb, when the Constituent Assembly gathe...
2019-02-07 23:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Weimar Assembly convened on this day 100 years ago, beginning a process which contained so much high hopes and ambitions for Germany's first flirtation with democracy. Between F...
2019-02-06 03:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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What happens when the Czechs, Romanians and Yugoslavs all try to make their voices heard, as the Big Five attempt to do their best to seem interested? What you get is this epi...
2019-02-05 20:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Poland's experience at the Paris Peace Conference contained its fair share of ups and downs, and nowhere was this more apparent in the early phases of the conference when its case w...
2019-02-03 02:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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As the Hotel Twamley fills with guests, nobody could have imagined what happened next. A combination of factors, certainly not aided by the strong drink on tap, led to an explosion ...
2019-02-02 17:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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On this day 100 years ago, the world was getting to grips with the concept of mandates, also known as Empire 2.0. Several different opinions existed regarding the concept, but...
2019-01-30 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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In our 28th installment, we attempt to explain mandates - that surprisingly elusive concept which it was the task of those assembled in Paris to understand. Once they understo...
2019-01-27 23:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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In the second episode the DG, we follow the fate of Lloyd George, as he attempted to confront the man responsible for imagining a proposal for devolved government in Ireland. What a...
2019-01-25 22:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 25TH JANUARY 1919
The first steps of the League of Nations were taken on this day a century ago, as the world lear...
2019-01-25 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Before the League of Nations could be presented to the world, it was necessary to build up to that great and seismic event by examining...Russia? That didn't sound quite right, and ...
2019-01-23 21:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Irish problem had not solved itself. Ever since the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the neighbouring island had provided troubling signs of a future catastrophe, and with the proc...
2019-01-21 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome delegates, to the first proper episode of the Delegation Game! Here we see everyone in the few hours before the plenary conference opened, and the Paris Peace Conference as ...
2019-01-18 16:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 18th JANUARY 1919 - THE PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS!
We finally made it, to the point of a new beginning for the world, in the war ...
2019-01-18 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I am SO EXCITED to bring you all this episode. This is exactly what this project is all about - a comprehensive examination of primary sources, left to us by those that were in plac...
2019-01-15 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 12th January 1919 - David Lloyd George arrives in Paris for the preliminary peace talks.
Before the Paris Peace Co...
2019-01-12 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the launch of the Delegation Game only a week away (on 18th Jan 2019) I thought it'd be beneficial to set out some detail about this fantastic explosion of nerdiness, and what ...
2019-01-11 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 10th January 1919 - the Spartacist Uprising reaches its apex - before it is brutally crushed in Berlin.
Rosa Luxemburg and K...
2019-01-10 01:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Germany was in dire straits by the time revolutionaries began taking over the streets in early 1919. Bolshevism was spreading westwards, but perhaps the most potent ingredient in th...
2019-01-08 01:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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OVER_THIS_PERIOD_IN_HISTORY - the first week of January 1919 - Woodrow Wilson begins his tour of Italy!
In Italy, as in France, the citizen...
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 26th December 1918 - Woodrow Wilson meets David Lloyd George in London!
Hope you're all not TOO full of foodstuffs, be...
2018-12-26 02:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post