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Interviews with scholars of the United Kingdom about their new books.
April 4, 2026
Race on Screen
What is the role of television in the history of the UK? In Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain (Cambridge UP, 2026) Christin…
April 1, 2026
The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living
We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Katherin…
March 31, 2026
The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend
Following the Normandy landings, Rommel rushed Heeresgruppe B reserves towards the coast in order to crush the bridgehead and drive the Allied forces …
March 30, 2026
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy
This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucaul…
March 28, 2026
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fiction than their male counterparts, yet their place in literary …
March 27, 2026
Veins of Influence
Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections by Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra (Neptune Publications, 2023) is a…
March 27, 2026
Making Pagans
Today’s guest, John Kuhn, is the author of Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania Press, …
March 25, 2026
Colonial Caregivers
Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India (Cambridge UP, 2025) offers a compelling cultural and social hi…
March 24, 2026
Dreams and Songs to Sing
Today we are joined by Alan McDougall, Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and the author of Dreams and Songs To Sing: A People’s Histor…
March 23, 2026
Archival Irruptions
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial…
March 23, 2026
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influenti…
March 23, 2026
Health and Efficiency
Our guest today is Steffan Blayney, the author of Health & Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. In Heal…
March 20, 2026
The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese
Today, macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, a staple of weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and Soul Food restaurants. Humble though th…
March 17, 2026
Liberal Worlds
James Bryce (1838–1922) was a leading figure in Britain’s Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved seamle…
March 17, 2026
Queering UK Refugee Law
Utilizing critical legal methodologies, Alex Powell's Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration (Bristol UP, 2026) gives a v…
March 17, 2026
Penalties of Empire
Who bore the burdens of empire? Christopher Munn's Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Hong Kong UP, 2025) explores how judge…
March 17, 2026
Edinburgh
From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witnessed…
March 15, 2026
Flaxman Low
Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when ta…
March 15, 2026
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in an…
March 14, 2026
Electric Wind
Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley (Manchester University Press, 2025) is a cutting-edge history of wind power in B…