History between the Lines

Mussolini's regime tightens its grip on power through repression and surveillance and attempts to mobilize the entire Italian population in the service of the totalitarian state.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

As Tricia and Edward prepare to marry in the summer of 1971, every top political American journalist scrambles to get an invite to their wedding. Because the father of the bride is US President Richard Nixon.

Jonathan Brown and Dr Patrick Andelic talk about Tricia Nixon's White House wedding in June, 1971, the first episode in a mini-series about significant weddings in history.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses", by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Music: Cinematic Dramatic Tense by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

After the First World War, Italy is a divided country in turmoil. As many Italians turn their backs on the old liberal politics, space opens up for a new political force: the fascists.
Jonathan Brown talks about the rise of fascism in Italy, the first episode in a mini-series about Fascist Italy.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Music: Cinematic Dramatic Tense by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown is at the Combined Military Services Museum in Essex, where he talks about one of their military artefacts, a covert operations listening rig from the 1970s, used by British forces in Northern Ireland to listen in on conversations which could hold valuable military intelligence.
Access to the listening rig, courtesy of the Combined Military Services Museum- link to them is below.
https://cmsm.co.uk/
Link to YouTube video of the listening rig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA46FrTMjcs

Music: Cinematic Dramatic Tense by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Dr Mark Lawrence talk about the Cristero War, which was fought in Mexico from 1926 until 1929.

As Mexico stabilises after 10 years of war after the revolution of 1910, the Mexican government introduces secular, anti-clerical policies which eventually lead to a Catholic revolt against the Mexican state which became the Cristero War.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music of Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown talks with Professor Michael Broers about the final volume of his biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown talks with Professor Michael Broers about his final volume of his biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Dr Mario Draper discuss the promotion of motorsport by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the 1920s and 1930s.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music: Cinematic Dramatic Tense, by Lexin Music, from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown talks about the use of torture by French forces during the Algerian War of the 1950s-1960s.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Professor Mark Connelly talk about Whitechapel in 1888 and the Jack the Ripper murders that happened there.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses", by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.