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British Studies
Interviews with scholars of the United Kingdom about their new books.
April 23, 2024
Pet Revolution
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (Reaktion Books, 2023) tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centur…
April 23, 2024
Christian Shakespeare
The enigma of William Shakespeare's religious beliefs has long tantalized scholars and enthusiasts alike. Vernon Press's latest publication, Christian…
April 22, 2024
England's Jews
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa…
April 22, 2024
Libertine London
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Julie Peakman investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830…
April 21, 2024
William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism
Exploring both his life and legacy, the first full biography of William Sharman Crawford, the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster…
April 21, 2024
Confinement
Covering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific quac…
April 20, 2024
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. …
April 17, 2024
Who Is Big Brother?
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Ninetee…
April 17, 2024
Wholesale Couture
Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Liz Tregenza seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply …
April 15, 2024
Symbols and Things
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily …
April 15, 2024
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular In…
April 15, 2024
Theorizing Music Evolution
What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary t…
April 12, 2024
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the ninetee…
April 10, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
Enlightenment philosopher David Hume enjoyed a tremendous influence on intellectual history. What did Hume believe, why was it so controversial at the…
April 8, 2024
Empire of Brutality
Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex …
April 7, 2024
Deeping It
Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill (404 Ink, 2023) by Adèle Oliver shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught rel…
April 6, 2024
Entangled Domains
Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multirelig…
April 5, 2024
Quartet
This is a story of four composers whose careers, lives and loves as women working in 20th century Britain have since been largely forgotten. Dr Leah …
April 3, 2024
The Invention of Prehistory
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings an…