🎧 The Migrant Crisis with Alexander Betts
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 25m
Alexander Betts is the Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. His research is on the politics and political economy of refugees, migration and humanitarianism, with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
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🎧 Sex & Shopping
From facilitating affairs to public facilities, how has shopping changed our lives?
And where did the one-stop shop, the palace of splendour and opportunity that is the department store come from?
Kate talks to Erika Rappaport about the birth of shopping culture, the mark that department stores...
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🎧 How the English Accent Changed Forever
Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profound transformation took place in the ways that the English language was spoken and words were pronounced. This “Great Vowel Shift” saw a change in the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels, resulting in spellings of words that ofte...
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🎧 The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Se...
Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He was born in Liverpool, studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from Lancaster University. Here he discusses the subject of his book 'The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Poli...
