The Road to 1914: Myths of Nationalism

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week in 1914 saw the outbreak of the First World War. In this special episode from the archive, Margaret MacMillan talks to her nephew Dan about her seminal book 'The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914'. They discuss the importance of Storytelling to the historian's process, the ways in which political actors at the time viewed the relation between fate and choice, the role that masculine insecurity played in the build up to the war and also examine the construct of and myths surrounding nationalistic feeling in the pre-war years. They even consider the possibility of an alternate course of events that involved Britain not entering the war at all.

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2:10.1	This week in 1914 saw the outbreak of the First World War. At a time of increased global tensions,
2:17.6	superpower rivalry, nationalism and aggressive rhetoric. It's always important to look back on
2:24.1	times from our past with resonance that echo. And so I've got Professor Margaret McMillan
2:30.7	on the podcast. She is a legend at University of Toronto, University of Oxford,
2:34.8	Professor and she's also my auntie, so she's the person who more than anyone else,
2:39.2	five of my love of history when I was young. She wrote a huge award-winning book on the
2:44.7	Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War. And more recently, for the St.
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