Ian Walker

31 December 2020

The Irish border: a biography of a 100-year-old institution

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05 November 2020

U2 – Globalisation’s poster boys

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08 October 2020

How Germany’s post-war economic revival set it on course for liberal leadership

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25 June 2020

Catch-22: The cinematic masterpiece that flopped

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14 December 2019

The 20th century’s forgotten monster: Erich Mielke

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11 May 2019

Chernobyl – The night the Soviet Union burned down

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06 May 2019

Daniel Defoe: Castaway from convention

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27 April 2019

Ipswich Town, relegation and a sad Brexit allegory

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25 April 2019

What do Europe’s cathedrals really stand for?

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14 April 2019

Blown away: How the hovercraft tells the story of British decline

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16 March 2019

The Reykjavik Summit: When the world stepped back from the abyss

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03 February 2019

Jumbo vision; the Boeing 747

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26 January 2019

The town that Stalin built

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20 January 2019

The man who divided America

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12 January 2019

Rosa Luxemburg – death of a revolutionary

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08 December 2018

Ian Walker: The Lufthansa Heist 40 years on

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25 September 2018

Ian Walker on Torquay, and the two sides of England’s comic cornerstone

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03 September 2018

From Brutalism to Blair: How Britain rebuilt after war

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27 July 2018

Ian Walker: Everything comes to an end

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24 July 2018

IAN WALKER: Examining the Faustian Pact

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24 June 2018

Munich Putsch: The region that could bring down a chancellor

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14 June 2018

The Russian paradox: a nation of two halves

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18 April 2018

Are the Prussians history’s greatest villains?

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07 April 2018

Henri Rousseau: Art’s Alan Partridge?

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05 April 2018

How Germany’s intellectual and artistic soul survived the Nazis

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19 November 2017

Hamburg, the city that saved rock n roll

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28 October 2017

Night the Boss rocked the wall

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05 October 2017

The Art of Disruption

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30 September 2017

Film that took the world’s breath away

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14 September 2017

The painting that saved art

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12 September 2017

Can – The influence the German rock band had on modern music

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04 September 2017

Konrad Adenauer: Europe’s flawed giant

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