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British Studies
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March 3, 2021
Slave in a Palanquin
Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Nira Wickramasinghe
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also …
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Christian Studies
March 2, 2021
Duty and Destiny
The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill
Gary Scott Smith
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Though Churchill harbored intellectual doubts about Christianity throughout his life, he nevertheless valued it greatly and drew on its resources, especially in the crucible of war. In Duty and Destiny …
Biography
March 1, 2021
The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn
Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen
Stephanie Russo
Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the centuries since her execution in 1536, Anne Boleyn’s presence in Western culture has grown to extraordinary proportions. In The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
March 1, 2021
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
A Discussion with Marion Turner
Marion Turner
Hosted by Marshall Poe
More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they …
Indian Religions
February 24, 2021
Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
Michale P. Brunner
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Michael P. Brunner's Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Palgrave, 2020) explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a …
Critical Theory
February 24, 2021
Penguin Books and Political Change
Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988
Dean Blackburn
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why do books and publishing matter to the contemporary history of Britain? In Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988 (Manchester UP, 2020), Dean Blackburn, a Lecturer in Modern …
History
February 22, 2021
London and the Seventeenth Century
The Making of the World's Greatest City
Margarette Lincoln
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Margarette Lincoln's London and the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2021) explores the ups and downs of life in Stuart London through the eyes of those who lived through it. The Gunpowder Plot, the …
History
February 22, 2021
A New History of England
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first …
Medicine
February 19, 2021
The Filth Disease
Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
Jacob Steere-Williams
Hosted by Claire Clark
Typhoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain. It was one of the most prolific diseases of the Industrial Revolution. There …
Christian Studies
February 16, 2021
They Knew They Were Pilgrims
Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty
John G. Turner
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
John G. Turner's excellent new history of the early American separatists, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty (Yale University Press, 2020) provides a new …
History
February 15, 2021
Reluctant European
Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit
Stephen Wall
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In 2016, the voters of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union. The majority for 'Leave' was small. Yet, in more than 40 years of EU membership, the …
Intellectual History
February 12, 2021
Dreamworlds of Race
Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America
Duncan Bell
Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
Published in December 2020, Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton University Press, 2020) concludes his loose trilogy of books about the metropolitan settler imaginary in …
Science
February 8, 2021
The Experimental Fire
Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
Jennifer M. Rampling
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A four-hundred-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. Tracing the development of alchemy in England from the beginning of …
Military History
February 4, 2021
The Compleat Victory
Saratoga and the American Revolution
Kevin Weddle
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
British hopes that the American War for Independence would be brought to a swift conclusion began to wane in the early months of 1777. Despite brilliant victories over Washington and …
Christian Studies
February 4, 2021
Christian Socialism as Political Ideology
The Formation of the British Christian Left, 1877-1945
Anthony A.J. Williams
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Anthony A.J. Williams is a political scientist who has taught at the University of Liverpool and at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Anthony is the author of an outstanding new account …
Architecture
February 2, 2021
Estate Regeneration
Learning from the Past, Housing Communities of the Future
Brendan Kilpatrick and Manisha Patel
Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
One hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of …
History
February 2, 2021
Rogue Empires
Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
Steven Press
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Steven Press is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His marvelous first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (Harvard University Press, 2017), is …
Christian Studies
February 2, 2021
Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations
David Dickson
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Matthew A. Vogan, who has published several books on the religious history and literature of seventeenth-century Scotland, and several editions of works by Covenanter preachers and theologians, talks today about …
History
February 2, 2021
Hotel London
How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black
Hosted by Mark Klobas
During the nineteenth century, the grand hotel emerged as a vital part of London life. Originally catering to elite visitors needing a place to stay in the short term, they …
Christian Studies
February 1, 2021
One Small Candle
The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England
Francis J. Bremer
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Frank Bremer's outstanding new book, One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England (Oxford UP, 2020), describes the fortunes of the congregation of pilgrims that settled …
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