Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRunes: A Concise History with Tom Birkett (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 67
Tom Birkett, University College, Cork, joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, Runes: A Concise History (Oxford UP, 2025) An accessible and illumin…
9 hours ago
Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
Episode 66
Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) analyzes the ideas and forms of inter…
1 day, 9 hours ago
Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez
Episode 65
In this episode, hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Farid Hafez to discuss his most recently published book Governing Islam in…
1 week ago
Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany with Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 64
Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany (Cornell UP, 2026) addresses how racism expresses itself and what it means to be antiracist by tracing the h…
1 week, 1 day ago
Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform with Charles West (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 63
Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about t…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 62
Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as tech…
2 weeks ago
Think of England: Nation, People, and Race in the English Imagination with Paul Kléber Monod (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 60
What is the basis of English national identity? How has this changed over time, and what is its future? Tracing the history of English identity over …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway with Kelly McKowen (U Toronto Press, 2026)
Episode 61
Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Arthur der Weduwen, "The Last Invasion of England: 1688 and the Dutch Armada" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 59
In popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James II was ousted by his subjects and replaced by his Protesta…
1 month ago
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
Episode 2604
The story of Polish Jewry, pre-Holocaust Europe’s largest Jewish community, is often told as one of creativity and contestation. In his new book, An …
1 month, 2 weeks ago