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🗓️ 30 May 2021
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There are many theories for when the Second World War was lost by the Axis powers. In this episode, Digital historian Alwyn Collinson shares the reasons why 1943 can be seen as this turning point. Digital Projects Manager at the University of Oxford, Alwyn runs the twitter account @RealTimeWWII and during this episode, he and James also explore whether video games can be an accurate or useful representation of the wars that they are based on. Alwyn can also be found on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RealTimeWWII
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the history at warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and for this episode we have the brilliant |
0:05.2 | Olwin Collinson a digital historian who you may know because he runs the massive real-time World War II |
0:12.0 | Twitter account it's got over half a million followers and they live |
0:14.9 | tweet the events of the Second World War each day as they happen. Now, they're on |
0:20.0 | 1943 at the moment, so we thought we'd get him on the warfare |
0:23.8 | podcast to tell us about why 1943 was such an important year. It turns out it is the |
0:29.9 | year that everything happens and the allies really start to take shape and the plans start to pay off. |
0:36.4 | It's when the victories start to roll out and the Germans start to roll back and the Americans start to take on the Japanese with any serious force as well. |
0:46.3 | In essence, it's arguably the year the war was won. |
0:50.8 | So here he is, the brilliant, |
0:53.0 | Olwen Collinson on 1943. Thank you so much for coming on the Warfare Podcast. How are you doing today? |
1:16.0 | I'm very well, thank you. It's slightly sunny, which is a major breakthrough. |
1:20.0 | Good, is that over in Oxford? |
1:22.0 | Yes, that's right. That's where I live and work. |
1:25.0 | Yes, you work in digital history at Oxford. |
1:28.0 | So has the term started a staff and students back in person? |
1:33.0 | No, we've actually just ended what is now, I suppose, the third term in a row of mostly virtual learning. |
1:40.0 | There are many students here because a lot of them are going to labs using libraries |
1:44.3 | that sort of thing but they are restricted from meeting in person for the time |
1:48.0 | being yes I suppose if you if you're a historian you don't technically need to be in class you can do that over |
1:56.7 | Zoom teaching wise I suppose I suppose that's the idea I mean mind you if you looked at my |
2:01.6 | attendance at lectures when I was an undergrad I suspect you might think that I also technically wasn't really there either. |
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