What the Paper Said

In this episode: The motor revolution and Hyde Park Corner | Railway Strike | Ernest Benn on unemployment| Labour leader's gaffe | HMV 

In this episode: terror bombing | advertising and Big Oil | Imperial Airways

How the world would appear to a reader of The Times in 1924.

In this episode: Motorway! | Rhineland | China | Latin | The Fax | Stalin | Motorways

In this episode: Britain tackles Foot & Mouth | Conrad von Hötzendorff | Railway turnover | Poison pens | German despotism | Honest politicians

In this episode: The War on Drugs | Election (19)23 | Rhineland | Cars | Helicopters 

In this episode: Churchill campaigns | Berlin Bother | Rhineland separatism | RBS | The Slump | Traffic census | Basil Zaharoff | Fog | A Guardsman dies

In this episode: Election fever | Streseman loses | Havenstein | Ypres | Acting improperly | Viennese anti-semitism

In this episode The Beerhall Putsch Part II | A general election | Armistice Day | Palestine | Murders of Jews | Aston Villa | Shoes | Wireless 

In this episode: The Beerhall Putsch | Bonar Law buried | What next for Churchill? | Riots | KKK | Snuff

The death of Andrew Bonar Law

Protectionism | More chaos in Germany | Doctors' Pay | Railway Profits

In this episode Beveridge on overpopulation; trouble in Fascismo; Bismarck; a romantic count; and crookedness in the boxing ring.

Churchill on Gallipoli (again).

Churchill on Gallipoli

In this episode: Booze stats | Disease stats | Mme Fahmy | Cabaret | KKK

Martial Law in Germany | The snuff danger | The handrail danger | The Underground

Mussolini according to a press baron; the Ulster border; a new German currency; a coup in Spain; a settlement in Corfu.

Earthquake in Japan | Invaders in Corfu | The poor of Poplar (again) | Plans for the Holocaust | Ludendorff & The Nazis | Asquith & the War

Taxation is theft | Road Safety

In this episode: the Singapore Naval Base; Haig on Ukraine; the Marie Stopes libel case; the Sir Alfred Douglas libel case; Cambridge University and women; the status of the Bank of England; a German terrorist escapes.

In this episode:  Peace with Turkey; the debate on disarmament; the Bank of the England expands; the President abroad, schoolboys and gambling and Nigerians and booze.

Do we need passports?; modern whaling; the future of freedom; extreme weather; 18-year-olds and drink; the end of the 3lb loaf; the death of the Queen Mother's cousin and an air race. 

In this episode: Interest rates are up; the new US immigration system; the Glossop murders; the dangers of aluminium cookware; attack on the Met Office; a train crash; a train bomb; Wimbledon and the success or otherwise of the Ruhr occupation.

In this episode: The Versailles Treaty, Prohibition, the downside of Irish independence, the Parchim murder, banning the horse, flammable films, domestic service, prohibition and the Atlantic liner, Fascist violence, Harding goes west, Labour MPs in trouble.

In this episode: London's transport problem; London’s noise problem; some sailors burn to death; some gates fall down; Sunday drinking in Ulster; how to put up the rent; miners’ pay; a tuberculosis statistic; Claude Rains; the duel and the German officer and a concentration camp.

EconTalk on Santiago's buses.

Coup in Bulgaria; Britain's fastest train; General Grierson gets a biography; Dzerzhinsky thinks he can run a railway.

The workers' paradise (again); Britain gets a new MP; the FBI gets royal approval.

Hitler and his allies. Britain gets a new Prime Minister.

The fall out from the Irish deportations; the limits of states' rights; the right size of underground trains; before the satellite dish. 

In this week's episode: A socialist on Churchill; the perils of modern education; the Ulster Irish on the border; Austrian hyperinflation; the great pram race and someone throws an egg at a politician.

In this episode - as well as headlines big and small: FA Cup Final chaos; a banker predicts the Great Depression; Churchill on communism; race relations in South Africa and America.

In this episode; so, who is responsible for the BBC? The confusing Lord Curzon; the realities of hyperinflation.

Professor Barth's YouTube series on money.

In this episode: The Prime Minister is fighting fit; what happens to you if you are found with a gun; the head of Oxford University flexes his muscles; Hitler is on a charge; Parliament defies the will of the people.

In this episode the blessings - or otherwise - of socialism. Also in this episode, how Bulgaria deals with communists, Sunday trading and the slave trade... in Ethiopia

In this episode: When will the robots take over? What is a jury of matrons? What is a bride-elect and do London bus drivers make good nurses?

In this episode: Oscar Wilde's paramour goes bonkers. Also in this episode cycle safety, housing, immigration, air pollution, drugs and an ossuary. Oh, and Andrew Bonar Law is unwell.

In this week’s episode: the Debate on Capitalism. Also in this week’s episode: the man who started the Great Depression is in court; the BBC undermines national defence; is the University of London under attack by Ukraine?; the inventor of the supermarket makes a killing, or so he thinks; London luvvies are a bunch of racists, Top Gear gets trolled by the London General Omnibus Company and some people have gone to sleep.

In this episode I catch up on what has been happening in the world since the last episode. 

 

In this episode: Overhead electrification; the legality of crystal sets; US immigration law; how hospitals raise money; the legality of the French occupation of the Ruhr and Churchill writes a book.

 

In this episode: Nazis go on a demo; a policeman learns his fortune; Irish houses burn; and I learn that there were two Ku Klux Klans.

Episode dealing with Italian Fascism I refer to is here.

In this episode: von Moltke’s thoughts, Croydon holds a referendum; Opium in China; Education in the Soviet Union; Hitler holds a demonstration and drink driving charges are dropped.

The Annika Mombauer book I mention is entitled Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War

The Simon House book I mention is entitled Lost Opportunity: The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

Sorry to say it but I seem to have misremembered Beadle’s lecture on the Marne. I thought it was on YouTube but I suspect it was part of a Zoom event and never published. Shame. But as a consolation there is this lecture by Beadle on the origins of the Schlieffen Plan. 

France can't win; Hitler speaks; William Robertson speaks; the Royal Engagement; Civil Service working hours and a drug user is jailed.

Ross Beadle on Sir William Robertson.

The 8 October Episode

 

In this episode: France occupies the Ruhr; the FitzRoy case draws to a close; Henry Ford stands for President and The Times examines communist psychology

Britain’s railways are to be forcibly merged into four groups. We learn about the aims of the scheme, what fares were like at the time and the prospects for electrification.

 

 

In this episode my further musings on reparations; the President of Poland is assassinated; Another twist in the Fitzroy Affair; Christmas Day activities and the British army leaves Ireland.

In this episode: Reparations. Yup, that's it. Not the normal format but back in 1922 there is a big conference on the horizon and The Times has several good articles on the issue so I thought, "Why not do a special?" And here it is.

In this episode: Ulster joins the UK; a judge warns of the danger of press barons; The Crown Prince of Germany publishes his memoirs; Britain prepares for the next war; as does Germany; the Fitzroy case drags on; communists receive a lesson in etiquette; Bevan is convicted; the US murder rate is up.

In this week’s episode: the march of the unemployed; Haig gets a biography; whither the battleship?; Prohibition doesn’t work; the Ku Klux Klan;  Greek commanders shot.

In this episode: a Communist addresses Parliament; Childers is executed; Warnings are issued about celebrity and whisky; the Ku Klux Klan get a mention and the Soviets set up Potemkin factories.