Tag: League of Nations

• Finding a voice

  Last week we asked, What if new isn’t always better? looking at some of the implications of the Paris Peace Conference and the changes imposed on nations by the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. It comes as no surprise that peoples who had suddenly gained new ‘masters’ found themselves questioning their rights,…

  Isabella Muir

  May 10, 2025

  Contemporary history, family life, politics, Post war Britain, postgraduate study, research, Second World War, social history, writing

  anti-colonialism, anti-empire, freedom, global south, independence, indigenous peoples, League of Nations, nationalism, social history, Third World

• What if new isn’t always better?

  Is new always better? Are there some changes that can be justified in order to take the world in a new and different direction, or does human nature result in us merely duplicating past mistakes?

  Isabella Muir

  May 3, 2025

  Contemporary history, family life, politics, Post war Britain, postgraduate study, reading, research, social history

  First World War, League of Nations, Ottoman Empire, Paris Peace Conference, social history, Treaty of Versailles, Woodrow Wilson