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British Studies
Interviews with scholars of the United Kingdom about their new books.
October 20, 2026
Disability
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence …
October 19, 2026
Christmas Carols
The English Christmas carol has been sung in court and cloister, tavern and field since medieval times. But with the first Festival of Nine Lessons an…
October 17, 2026
Reading for Pleasure
Lise Shapiro Sanders is the author of Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early 20c Britain, published in October 2026 by B…
October 16, 2026
Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712
From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Mag…
October 14, 2026
The Brass Band Story
Brass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to…
October 9, 2026
Tyrants and Traders
How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roman citizens in Western Europe, the Brito…
October 7, 2026
Think of England
What is the basis of English national identity? How has this changed over time, and what is its future? Tracing the history of English identity over m…
October 5, 2026
All Around Is Fairy Ground
Regency gardens dazzled with colour, invention and theatricality: trellises heavy with roses and jasmine, shrubberies designed for intrigue and lawns …
October 4, 2026
Creatures of Story and Song
Lee Raye joins Jana Byars to talk about their new book, Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species (Reaktion, 2026). Discover why a b…
October 3, 2026
The Jew Who Would Be King
This vivid reconstruction of one man’s life reveals the harsh realities and moral ambiguities of colonial power. The Jew Who Would Be King: A True S…
October 3, 2026
Treasures on Earth
Jeremy Harte, President of the Folklore Society, joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend…
October 1, 2026
Kennedy's Only Hero
President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill remain two of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century and Joel Nelson’s new…
October 1, 2026
Assassins and Secret Listeners
Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men a…
September 27, 2026
Fitness for Freedom
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing (Syracuse UP, 2025) explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disab…
September 24, 2026
Seeking the High Ground
How is it, Samuel Johnson famously asked on the eve of the Revolution, that Americans could so vociferously demand freedom for themselves while so con…
September 22, 2026
The Last Invasion of England
In popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James II was ousted by his subjects and replaced by his Protestan…
September 17, 2026
Vicious and Immoral
The fascinating story of a British army chaplain's buggery trial in 1774 reveals surprising truths about early America. On the eve of the American Rev…
September 13, 2026
Absence in the Archives
Ciara Breathnach is Professor of Irish Gender History at University College Cork. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural a…
September 6, 2026
Scotland's Geomythography
What can we learn from our landscape? How can Geomythography help us understand our cultural heritage? What is Geomythography? Geomythography is the i…
September 4, 2026
Legal Weapons of the Wealthy
In Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite Conflict in Emerging Markets (Cornell University Press, 2026), Dr. Nikhil Kalyanpur examines …