About Richard Northrop

Rick Northrop is an undergraduate student of History in Calgary, Alberta.

Rick Northrop is an undergraduate student of History in Calgary, Alberta.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Richard:

Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 24, 2024

Endgame 1944

Jonathan Dimbleby
Hosted by Richard Northrop

The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic batt…

Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 2, 2024

An Age to Work

Miranda Sachs
Hosted by Richard Northrop

Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside…

Alexandra Paulin-Booth, "Time and Radical Politics in France: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War" (Manchester UP, 2023)

May 19, 2024

Time and Radical Politics in France

Alexandra Paulin-Booth
Hosted by Richard Northrop

People experience and comprehend time in different fashions in response to events occurring around them. The experience of time and the speed at which…

Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)

August 27, 2023

France on Trial

Julian Jackson
Hosted by Richard Northrop

There was a time when French people put up picture of Marshal Philippe Petain on their walls. He is a figure of immeasurable stature to the country …

Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)

August 1, 2023

The War on the Eastern Front

Alexander Hill
Hosted by Richard Northrop
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In The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History (Pen & Sword Military, 2021), Professor Alexander Hill has colle…