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The 1947 Partition Archive is a collection of life stories recorded on video (and sometimes audio) from those who witnessed the 1947 Partition of South Asian States. The Archive is built for people, by people. The stories are gathered and shared by anyone who wishes to share.

The birth of India and Pakistan as independent states in 1947 was a key moment in the history of Britain’s empire and its army. But the process of partition was attended by mass migration and ethnic violence that has left a bitter legacy to this day.

The Russian Revolution was one of the most influential events to emerge from the furnace of the First World War. It transformed Russia and its Empire and firmly planted the flag of world revolution at the centre of 20th century world history. The Revolution was the outcome of a vast array of interacting forces, internal and external, long-term and short-term, structural and accidental. The Great War did not create the forces of revolution, but it did set them in motion and fuel them.

Russia signaled its withdrawal from World War I soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard. This article for BBC by Jonathan Smele charts this turbulent episode in the forging of post-tsarist Russia.

Article from 2020

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The official website for BBC History Magazine

Resource that has been created by Dr. Toby Lincoln and Dr. Lauren Walden from the University of Leicester, and designed in partnership with the UCL IOE Confucius Institute for Schools.

Examine the connections between Haiti and Portchester and a few of the key events and characters of the revolution.

Pushing back aggressions by Europe's greatest powers, Haiti's 'founding father' set the stage for the world's first sovereign Black state.

Collection of primary sources on the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture translated in English