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About Joshua Tham
NBN Episodes hosted by Joshua:
August 6, 2021
The Red Atlas
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted an ambitious yet clandestine programme to map the world - from big cities like New York and Tokyo,…
February 22, 2021
London and the Seventeenth Century
Margarette Lincoln's London and the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2021) explores the ups and downs of life in Stuart London through the …
February 10, 2021
The Boundless Sea
Building on his 2011 work The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia's latest book, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the…
January 25, 2021
Bread Winner
Emma Griffin's Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale UP, 2020) offers a refreshingly different take on the age of national …
November 23, 2020
The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland
The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in …
October 15, 2020
On the Judgment of History
Joan Scott’s groundbreaking work in gender and French history is essential reading for any aspiring historian. Indeed, she last joined us on New Books…
September 23, 2020
The Chile Pepper in China
In China, chiles are everywhere. From dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, Chinese cult…
August 31, 2020
A History of the Bible
John Barton is no stranger to Holy Scripture. Having spent much of his academic career as a chaplain and professor of theology at the University of Ox…
August 19, 2020
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Cambridge University Press, 2017) addresses one of the big questions …