66. Le traité de Versailles et la nouvelle ca...

Entre 1974 et 1988, en à peine quatorze ans, la France légalise l’avortement, abolit la peine de mort, passe à gauche pour la première fois, invente la cohabitation, libère les ondes, découvre le SIDA, invente la Fête de la musique, et voit monter un parti d’extrême droite à l’As ...  Show more

Le 25 avril 1974, une révolution pacifique au Portugal renverse la dictature salazariste en place depuis 48 ans. Des jeunes officiers, des fleurs comme symboles de paix, et un pays métamorphosé.Plongez dans les racines, les moments forts et l'impact durable de cette révolution de ...  Show more

Professor David Stevenson answers listener questions on the 1919-20 conference that sought to resolve the aftermath of the First World War   In the latest episode in our series on history’s biggest topics, Professor David Stevenson explores the 1919–20 conference that sought to r ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the conference convened by the victorious powers of the Napoleonic Wars and the earlier French Revolutionary Wars, which had devastated so much of Europe over the last 25 years. The powers aimed to create a long lasting peace, partly by redrawing t ...  Show more

Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, and is now entangled in a secret Serbian nationalist organisation, the Black Hand. Hoping to be more involved in the struggle for a greater Yugoslavia, he’s left for Belgrade, and a ...  Show more

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the First World War, where more than 15 million people would lose their lives. Franz Ferdinand’s assassin, Gavrilo Pr ...  Show more