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January 22, 2021
Poet of Revolution
The Making of John Milton
Nicholas McDowell
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Decades before he wrote his epic work Paradise Lost, John Milton was an active republican and polemicist. How Milton came to espouse such radical views is just one of the …
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Intellectual History
January 19, 2021
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge
British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832
Louisiane Ferlier and Benedicte Miyamoto
Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832 (Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the …
Military History
January 18, 2021
Britain's War
A New World, 1942-1947
Daniel Todman
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Oxford UP, 2020), begins with the event Winston Churchill called …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 4, 2021
Female Husbands
A Trans History
Jen Manion
Hosted by Leo Valdes
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men …
British Studies
December 28, 2020
Occupied America
British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Donald F. Johnson
Hosted by Charles Prior
When we read the Declaration of Independence, what tends to jump off the page are the lofty propositions concerning natural rights. Yet over a third of the brief document is …
History
December 23, 2020
The Triumph of the Moon
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Ronald Hutton
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we speak to Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom about the twentieth anniversary, and concomitant reissue, of the extremely important The …
Popular Culture
December 23, 2020
Modern Music Masters - Oasis
Almost Everything You Wanted to Know about Oasis, and Some Stuff You Didn't...
Tom Boniface-Webb
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In the first book in the Modern Music Masters series, Tom Boniface-Webb examines the Manchester band Modern Music Masters-Oasis (MMM, 2020). Founded in 1994 and playing together until their spectacular and abrupt …
Military History
December 22, 2020
The Gallipoli Evacuation
Peter Hart
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the story of how the Allied force …
Critical Theory
December 18, 2020
Shakespearean Territories
Stuart Elden
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What can Shakespeare tell us about territory, and what can territory tell us about Shakespeare? In Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at …
History
December 17, 2020
Time's Monster
How History Makes History
Priya Satia
Hosted by Jonathan Megerian
How we see the past helps shape our understanding of the present. In the realm of statecraft and empire, understandings of the meaning of history, the progression of time, and …
European Studies
December 15, 2020
Project Europe
A History
Kiran Klaus Patel
Hosted by Tim Jones
Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
Music
December 14, 2020
How Belfast Got the Blues
A Cultural History of Popular Music in The 1960s
Noel Mclaughlin and Joanna Braniff
Hosted by Kristen Turner
There is no shortage of books about the British Invasion or the history of R&B and the Blues in the United Kingdom. Belfast might seem like something of a peripheral …
History
December 8, 2020
John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions
Lloyd Bowen
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Lloyd Bowen, who teaches history at Cardiff University, is a leading authority on Wales in the seventeenth century. His latest book, John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British …
British Studies
December 7, 2020
Imperial Culture and the Sudan
Authorship, Identity and the British Empire
Lia Paradis
Hosted by Charles Prior
In The Empty House, Sherlock Holmes makes a dramatic reappearance in the surgery of his friend Dr Watson. Presumed dead at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, Holmes recounts his …
History
December 4, 2020
Debauched, Desperate, Deranged
Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913
Carolyn A. Conley
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we speak to Carolyn Conley, Professor Emerita from the University of Alabama – Birmingham, about her new book Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 (Oxford UP, 2020) …
British Studies
December 3, 2020
American States of Nature
The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775
Mark Somos
Hosted by Charles Prior
In Federalist no. 2, John Jay considered the ‘wide spreading country’ of the American republic. It was, he argued, as if the land itself was fashioned by the hand of …
Third World Nationalism
December 1, 2020
Naoroji
Pioneer of Indian Nationalism
Dinyar Patel
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, we have put together this series on Third World Nationalism …
History
November 27, 2020
The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
Gaby Mahlberg
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II promised to forgive those who had …
History
November 23, 2020
George III
Madness and Majesty
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for …
Critical Theory
November 20, 2020
The Crisis of the Meritocracy
Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War
Peter Mandler
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How did public demand shape education in the 20th century? In The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War (Oxford UP, 2020), Peter …
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