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Interviews with scholars of the United Kingdom about their new books.
July 25, 2024
The Puppet Masters
In The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis (Mercier Press, 2024), David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of P…
July 23, 2024
Rival Wisdoms
In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Nancy Mason Bradbury …
July 23, 2024
British Cinema
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Bri…
July 22, 2024
Arts and Minds
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way ima…
July 20, 2024
Reading Tolkien in Chinese
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, …
July 19, 2024
Scottish Society in the Second World War
Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press,…
July 17, 2024
Ageing and New Intimacies
The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy …
July 16, 2024
The Poetics of Prophecy
Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studie…
July 14, 2024
The Red Shoes
Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorate…
July 14, 2024
The City-State of Boston
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an indepe…
July 13, 2024
Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain
What does the history of men tell us about life today? In Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present (Manchester UP, 2024), th…
July 13, 2024
Worthy of Freedom
In Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Jonathan Connolly traces the normalizat…
July 12, 2024
The Enclosure of Knowledge
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages. The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agra…
July 9, 2024
Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing
Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between c…
July 9, 2024
The Women Are Up to Something
The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris …
July 7, 2024
Cunning Folk
Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facin…
July 7, 2024
Catland
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had …
July 6, 2024
Schooling Inequality
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rema…
July 5, 2024
Defoe's Britain
The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Brita…
July 2, 2024
Strolling in the Ruins
In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in t…