Podcast Episodes

Samuel Marquis, "Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701" (Pegasus Books, 2026)

Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701 (Pegasus Books, 2026) by Samuel Marquis presen…

13 hours ago

Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, "Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions" (Oxford UP, 2026)

In Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 2026), Christopher Hodson a…

1 week ago

Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

In 1644 four norcini or pork butchers were accused of killing not pigs, but seven of their fellow citizens, stripping the meat from the bones, then…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Amélie Junqua and Geoffrey Day, "Too Good to Waste: Recycling Paper in the Eighteenth Century" (Bodleian Library, 2026)

Paper was a precious commodity in the eighteenth century: every sheet was made by hand. There was therefore a significant market in recycling subs…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680" (Oxford UP, 2026)

In Contested Continent: The Struggle for America, c.1000-1680 (Oxford University Press, 2026), the newest installment of the acclaimed Oxford History…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)

The first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers who crafted unimaginably strong steel millennia before it should have been possible. They were alchemi…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

Peter Ross, "Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London" (Bodleian Library, 2026)

In Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London (Bodleian Library, 2026) by Dr. Peter Ross, step into the kitchens, streets and chop houses o…

1 month ago

Jeremy D. Popkin, "The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France" (Princeton UP, 2026)

The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slavery and rac…

1 month ago

Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)

What does a 16th century ruler reveal about the nature of power, past and present?

Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinn…

1 month ago

Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, European painting underwent a profound transformation as artists increasingly painted on ca…

1 month, 1 week ago