This week Mathias and I got together to talk about China.

http://youtu.be/OqK9dgN2k4A

Episode 4: Catalonia

This week I sat down with Mathias Fuelling to talk about the impending crisis in Spain in regard to Catalonia.

We Talk About:

Spain

The European Union

Independence on the political Left and Right

The future of smaller nations

Spain's Fascist history and Francisco Franco

Why the Basque aren't independent

George Orwell

Catalonia's move towards Independence

http://youtu.be/nsswv5KUl_k

http://youtu.be/ZxdWctxP04s

This week, I am giving a presentation at a Society for Latin America Studies conference hosted by Glasgow University. My topic is a Quaker-led refugee operation in Cuba at the outset of World War II. This podcast is a sample of the discussion presented at the conference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahQh4sxkOnI

Havana Harbor - from a 1900 postcard

St Patrick - Hotel Astor - 1924

Who is St. Patrick and why does he get a day?

This episode is about the story of St Patrick and how historians ask questions and seek answers.

Sources:

Philip Freeman, The World Of St Patrick, Oxford, 2014.

E.A. Thompson, Who Was St Patrick?, The Boydell Press, 1985