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Occupied France: The Dark Years 1940-44

Following the period of 'The Phoney War' from September 1939 until May 1940, it took little more than a month for what Churchill called...

JW3: Au Revoir

For all my students past and present who came to my lectures at LJCC and then subsequently to JW3. There wasn't a proper opportunity of...

COWS, CATS, & CANARIES

Blurb for next Friday's one off talk at JW3 and on zoom when the class will be visited for a few minutes by a VIP visitor to JW3. This is...

UKRAINE: From Independence to War

Red Square, Christmas Day 1991 Ukraine Independence 1991 President follows President from 1991 to 2019 Corruption follows Corruption Pro...

France: The Last Monarchies 1814-70

It should be no surprise to learn that Louis XVI's two younger brothers, Louis XVIII and Charles X, returned to the throne of France...

JW3, Thurs 1 Dec

UKRAINE 1945-91: The Soviet Years A shorter synopsis than usual but covering nearly half a century of Soviet repression. Immediate...

Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte is a figure larger than life. To the British he became a bogey man - mothers warned their children that if they didn't...

Ukraine: World War Two - JW3 24 November

Caught between Nazism and Stalinism Recap on the inter war years (with new material) 1939/41 Poland divided as result of Ribbentrop and...

A Wide Selection of Books

HISTORY The World Simon Sebag Montefiori A Village in The Third Reich Julia Boyd How one village, Oberstdorf, lived through...

REVOLUTION: FRANCE 1789

The reign of Louis XVI (1774-93), in hindsight, marked France's last opportunity to deal with its myriad of problems, financial, social,...

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