Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnastasios Karababas, "In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" (Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 2024)
Episode 2380
“To live, a people must always be able to know its past, to judge it, to accept it.”
— Simone Veil, French politician and Shoah survivor
When I sat do…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 91
Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turk…
1 year, 3 months ago
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
Episode 176
No-one can fail to notice how many statues of Great Men there are around London: stern politicians, military generals, imperial adventurers . . . But…
1 year, 3 months ago
John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Episode 2377
Bringing John McGahern's 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critica…
1 year, 3 months ago
Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 298
A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era.
In the years after the Nazis came to power i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)
Episode 2375
From the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot on English soil in 1568 until her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, she was the pris…
1 year, 3 months ago
Samuel Kline Cohn, "Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 2374
Samuel K Cohn, Jr. joins Jana Byars to talk about Popular Protest and the Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 202…
1 year, 3 months ago
Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Episode 88
The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame
Offers an anatomy of Irish shame as a cultural predicament Comb…1 year, 3 months ago
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 2372
Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on kn…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael Green and Ineke Huysman eds., "Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Brepols Publishers, 2023)
Episode 2371
Michael Green joins Jana Byars to talk about his volume with co-editor Ineke Huysman, Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries (Bre…
1 year, 3 months ago