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About Crawford Gribben

Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.

NBN Episodes hosted by Crawford:

General History December 1, 2021

The Last King of America

The Misunderstood Reign of George III

Andrew Roberts

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Following upon the success of his magisterial account of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts returns with an outstanding biography of George III: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III …
General History November 22, 2021

England in the Age of Dickens, 1812-70

Jeremy Black

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Jeremy Black, who recently retired as professor of history of Exeter University, has just published the two latest installments of his series of works on writers of literary fiction. England in the …
Christian Studies October 5, 2021

Cambridge Greek Lexicon

James Diggle

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Professor James Diggle, editor in chief of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon (Cambridge UP, 2021), joins us to explain the background to this extraordinary project. Setting out to provide a standard …
Christian Studies September 21, 2021

The Didache

Shawn J. Wilhite

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Shawn Wilhite is author of this outstanding new commentary on one of the most important early Christian documents. We don't know who wrote the Didache, when it was written, or …
Christian Studies September 20, 2021

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan, and Russell Newton

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The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (Boydell Press, 2021), edited by  Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan and Russell Newton, is an outstanding and agenda-setting volume that puts the experience …
Christian Studies August 17, 2021

Second Clement

An Introductory Commentary

William Varner

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As everyone likes to notice, The Second Epistle of Clement is neither an epistle nor by Clement. So why does this early second-century Christian document matter so much? Second Clement: An …
Christian Studies July 6, 2021

The Nero-Antichrist

Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

Shushma Malik

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In The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge UP, 2020), Shushma Malik reconstructs the means by which the emperor Nero came to be identified with the New Testament's antichrist. Malik surveys …
Christian Studies June 22, 2021

Duplex Regnum Christi

Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology

Jonathon D. Beeke

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In Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Brill, 2020), Jonathon D. Beeke surveys the development of thinking among early modern Reformed theologians about the relationship between religion and …
Christian Studies June 10, 2021

Defending the Faith

Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir

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Todd H. Weir and Hugh McLeod, two leading historians of religion, have teamed up to edit a volume in the Proceedings of the British Academy that explores how conflicts between secular worldviews …
Christian Studies May 28, 2021

Curiosity

And Its Twelve Rules for Life

F. H. Buckley

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Frank Buckley's new book offers some important guidance for those of us who have emerged jaded from a year of social distancing. Curiosity, and Its Twelve Rules for Life (Encounter Books …
Christian Studies May 25, 2021

American Catholic

The Politics of Faith During the Cold War

D. G. Hart

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In American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2020), Darryl Hart's addresses the foundational changes in thinking about church-state relations within American Catholicism that contributed so much …
General History April 21, 2021

England in the Age of Austen

Jeremy Black

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Jeremy Black's new book on England in the Age of Austen, just published by Indiana University Press (2021), will be a treat for anyone who loves Jane - and who does …
General History April 14, 2021

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021

From World Power to ?

Jeremy Black

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Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific and punchy of historians of modern Britain, has written a new account of a period on which he has previously published. A Brief …
Christian Studies March 30, 2021

Christian Citizens

Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

Elizabeth L. Jemison

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Elizabeth L. Jemison, who teaches American religious history at Clemson University, South Carolina, has written an outstanding new book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South (University …
Christian Studies March 25, 2021

The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain

East Comes West

Brendan McNamara

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Brendan McNamara, who teaches religion at University College Cork, Ireland, has published an excellent new book on the expansion of the Bahá’í faith into western Europe. In the late nineteenth …
Christian Studies March 19, 2021

Physico-Theology

Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750

Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz

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Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz have edited an outstanding volume that breaks important new ground in the history of early modern science and religion. As the contributors to this …
General History March 10, 2021

The Ghost of Galileo

In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War

J. L. Heilbron

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John Heilbron, professor of history and vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, is one of our most distinguished - and prolific - historians of science. His latest book, The …
Christian Studies March 10, 2021

Christian Circulations

Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000

Jean Debernardi

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Jean DeBernardi, professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, has written an outstanding account of the evolution of evangelical protestantism in Southeast Asia. Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local …
General History February 12, 2021

A History of the 20th Century

Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'roll

Jeremy Black

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Jeremy Black – professor of history at Exeter University, and one of the world’s most prolific writers – has just published an outstanding illustrated history of the twentieth century, in A …
Christian Studies February 10, 2021

Adam Boreel (1602-1665)

A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity" (Brill, 2020)

Francesco Quatrini

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The debate about the origins of Enlightenment haven’t paid as much attention as they should have done to the radical religious cultures of the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century …
Christian Studies February 4, 2021

Christian Socialism as Political Ideology

The Formation of the British Christian Left, 1877-1945

Anthony A.J. Williams

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Anthony A.J. Williams is a political scientist who has taught at the University of Liverpool and at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Anthony is the author of an outstanding new account …
Christian Studies February 2, 2021

Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations

David Dickson

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Matthew A. Vogan, who has published several books on the religious history and literature of seventeenth-century Scotland, and several editions of works by Covenanter preachers and theologians, talks today about …
Christian Studies February 1, 2021

One Small Candle

The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England

Francis J. Bremer

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Frank Bremer's outstanding new book, One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England (Oxford UP, 2020), describes the fortunes of the congregation of pilgrims that settled …
Literature December 11, 2020

Alexandria

Paul Kingsnorth

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Over the last ten years, Paul Kingsnorth has become recognised as one of the most extraordinary of contemporary writers. After The Wake, which was listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 …