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The last two weeks of February 1919 were awash with legions of issues, hurt feelings, long winded speeches and too many other details to possibly count. We've already seen the period from the point of view of Harold Nicolson, but was it any better of an experience for those that w...
2019-02-28 19:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Spare a thought for poor old Harold Nicolson...
Mr Nicolson was a senior clerk in the British Foreign Office, and by mid-February 1919, he had already had his patience strained and his grand ambitions challenged. What lay ahead of this man once the American President d...
2019-02-23 23:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today in history, a deranged assailant attacked the father of victory, plunging France and all of Europe into a panic, and setting off the next phase of the Paris Peace Conference...
2019-02-19 20:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today we bravely venture to where this podcast normally steers clear - American politics. This is an essential trip though, because we must examine what happened in the US once the President returned there to present his League between 20 February and 8 March 1919. This period was...
2019-02-17 16:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Oh boy, this is gonna be a good one! Episode 5 of the Delegation Game examines the aftermath of some pretty important deals which were passed, by hook or by crook, and which now challenge those present in Paris to adapt. The League of Nations Charter is the most significant of the...
2019-02-16 22:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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OTD in history 100 years ago – the League of Nations was given a covenant, stamped and signed with seals of approval from all the attending allied powers that had taken so long to reach this decision. The first two weeks of February 1919 had indeed been...
2019-02-14 18:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Gathering together on 12th February, time was of the essence, a fact which had certainly been relevant before, but which the allies had still somehow managed to essentially ignore. On this day though, the allies could not ignore the fact that Germany was a sticky situation, one wh...
2019-02-12 21:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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You know the story of 'plucky little Belgium', but what about the Belgium after the war? After all they had been through, facing the might of the German Army in its initial unrelenting phase, Belgium had unquestionably been through the ringer. The question was though, what would t...
2019-02-11 20:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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The latest episode of the project hones in on three specific days – the 8, 9 and 10 of February 1919, as we build up to the moment when David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson returned home for various reasons. Both figures had a lot on their mind even before they had left, but be...
2019-02-10 19:50:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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The latest instalment of the game sees everyone feeling somewhat traumatised from the massacre at the Hotel Twamley, but the show must go on! Schemes were afoot even as the Canadian Premier delivered a eulogy for his late great friend, and as the Russian delegate, Alexander Kerens...
2019-02-09 19:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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In episode 33, we assess the day of 7th February, where the allies attempted to respond to what the Germans had done the previous day of 6th Feb, when the Constituent Assembly gathered in Weimar. The only problem with this allied approach was that no single man knew what exactly w...
2019-02-07 23:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Weimar Assembly convened on this day 100 years ago, beginning a process which contained so much high hopes and ambitions for Germany's first flirtation with democracy. Between February 1919 and June 1920, Germany would be in flux as a new constitution was developed, government...
2019-02-06 03:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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What happens when the Czechs, Romanians and Yugoslavs all try to make their voices heard, as the Big Five attempt to do their best to seem interested? What you get is this episode! A deliciously detailed examination of each of the cases made by the individual national leader...
2019-02-05 20:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Poland's experience at the Paris Peace Conference contained its fair share of ups and downs, and nowhere was this more apparent in the early phases of the conference when its case was first presented. Poland was facing into a power vacuum and with that came great opportunities, bu...
2019-02-03 02:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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As the Hotel Twamley fills with guests, nobody could have imagined what happened next. A combination of factors, certainly not aided by the strong drink on tap, led to an explosion the likes of which Paris had never seen before, or imagined possible. The consequences would be fata...
2019-02-02 17:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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On this day 100 years ago, the world was getting to grips with the concept of mandates, also known as Empire 2.0. Several different opinions existed regarding the concept, but something which was becoming increasingly obvious was that Woodrow Wilson wanted to wait before def...
2019-01-30 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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In our 28th installment, we attempt to explain mandates - that surprisingly elusive concept which it was the task of those assembled in Paris to understand. Once they understood it and got to grips with how mandates would fit into the international system, it was hoped that ...
2019-01-27 23:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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In the second episode the DG, we follow the fate of Lloyd George, as he attempted to confront the man responsible for imagining a proposal for devolved government in Ireland. What awaited the British Prime Minister when he met with Joseph Doherty face to face was a scene which was...
2019-01-25 22:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 25TH JANUARY 1919
The first steps of the League of Nations were taken on this day a century ago, as the world learned exactly what Woodrow Wilson's idea meant for them and the future relations of so many states. Wh...
2019-01-25 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Before the League of Nations could be presented to the world, it was necessary to build up to that great and seismic event by examining...Russia? That didn't sound quite right, and yet the Council of Ten or Supreme Council worked through the 20-24 January as though the League of E...
2019-01-23 21:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Irish problem had not solved itself. Ever since the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the neighbouring island had provided troubling signs of a future catastrophe, and with the proclamation of the Dáil or Irish assembly coinciding with an attack launched on Royal Irish Constabula...
2019-01-21 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome delegates, to the first proper episode of the Delegation Game! Here we see everyone in the few hours before the plenary conference opened, and the Paris Peace Conference as we know it began. There was much to do, there was scheming aplenty and a great deal of opportunistic...
2019-01-18 16:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 18th JANUARY 1919 - THE PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS!
We finally made it, to the point of a new beginning for the world, in the war torn locations where so many foreign faces were travelling, and upon which so much hope had been pla...
2019-01-18 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I am SO EXCITED to bring you all this episode. This is exactly what this project is all about - a comprehensive examination of primary sources, left to us by those that were in place and charged with TAKING charge a century ago. Here we cover the period of 13-17 January 1919, usin...
2019-01-15 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 12th January 1919 - David Lloyd George arrives in Paris for the preliminary peace talks.
Before the Paris Peace Conference opened, it was important for all sides to meet and talk together. As all three men spoke En...
2019-01-12 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the launch of the Delegation Game only a week away (on 18th Jan 2019) I thought it'd be beneficial to set out some detail about this fantastic explosion of nerdiness, and what you need to do in order to take part. We look at some tools which the game will avail of, investigat...
2019-01-11 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 10th January 1919 - the Spartacist Uprising reaches its apex - before it is brutally crushed in Berlin.
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were the most prolific casualties, but much more was going on beneath the surface tha...
2019-01-10 01:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Germany was in dire straits by the time revolutionaries began taking over the streets in early 1919. Bolshevism was spreading westwards, but perhaps the most potent ingredient in this spread was the lack of available food, and the endless opportunities this gave rabble rousers to ...
2019-01-08 01:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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OVER_THIS_PERIOD_IN_HISTORY - the first week of January 1919 - Woodrow Wilson begins his tour of Italy!
In Italy, as in France, the citizens of that exhausted country were excited indeed to received the American President, and for six days...
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 26th December 1918 - Woodrow Wilson meets David Lloyd George in London!
Hope you're all not TOO full of foodstuffs, because we have an important little bulletin to bring to you! The US President's visit to London in la...
2018-12-26 02:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post