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About Tom Sojka
I recently completed my PhD in History at Boston University. My dissertation, "Moving Beyond Mayfair: Rethinking the Bright Young People in Interwar Britain," looked beyond London's West End to position show how the Bright Young People — an informal, quasi-aristocratic group of artists, writers, and professional party-goers — navigated the nighttime leisure landscape of Mayfair, the British countryside, and the European continent. Additionally, it conceptualizes the interwar gossip column as a discursive social space, which worked to democratize elite sociability for a middle-class reading public. I am particularly interested in the cultural history of interwar Britain.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tom:
August 2, 2025
Teenage intimacies
Teenage Intimacies offers a new account of the ‘sexual revolution’ in mid-twentieth century England. Rather than focusing on ‘Swinging London’, the bo…
November 4, 2024
Intimate Subjects
When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us…