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Scott Allsop studied history at the University of Cambridge and is the host of an iTunes Top-100 daily history podcast. He is an award-winning history teacher who was nominated for the UK's national Teaching Awards and short-listed for the BBC/Historical Association History Teacher of the Year award.

Passionate about finding opportunities to engage people with history, he hosts the daily 'on this day in history’ podcast at http://www.HistoryPod.net. This series of 2-3 minute long episodes covers a range of historical periods and events and was the top ‘New and Noteworthy’ history podcast on iTunes on its release. It has since maintained its place of a Top-100 podcast. He also creates podcasts specifically for history students that are shared

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6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army

On the morning of 6 September, the French Sixth Army attacked the German First Army near the River Ourcq while the French Fifth Army and British Expeditionary Force advanced into the gap between the German First and Second Armies. On 9 September, German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke ordered a withdrawal, marking the transition from mobile warfare to the long period of trench warfare that ...
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