Radio 4's The Long View
In July 2014 I joined presenter Jonathan Freedland, Shiraz Maher and Usama Hasan for Radio Four's 'The Long View', which discussed attitudes towards British people volunteering to fight in foreign wars.
RGASPI archives
As a number of researchers have discovered, the online RGASPI archives in Moscow are currently inaccessible. Attempts to contact RGASPI to establish why the archives are down and when they might be up again have, so far, been unsuccessful.
There was a functioning mirror site here but unfortunately, as of July 2026, it’s no longer active.
History Most Podcast
In early August 2020 I joined Alex Clifford, author of Fighting for Spain, a new military history of the International Brigades, to talk about their role in the Spanish Civil War.
In a long-ranging discussion lasting almost two hours(!), we discussed the formation of the Brigades, to why and how so many volunteers flocked to Spain, the battles they fought, and the people who served in them. Why did these men (and some women) became History’s Most Unlikely Warriors?
The podcast was released on 7 September and can be found here.
