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Back to SearchPhilip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 155
The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (Bloomsbury, 2025) a new addition to the Object Le…
1 year, 8 months ago
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 169
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Magdalena…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 114
Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 271
Ann Schmiesing, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, with research interests spanning 18th an…
1 year, 9 months ago
Whitney Dirks, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 91
Whitney Dirks joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold (A…
1 year, 9 months ago
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
Episode 29
Early Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets, ballads, woodcuts broadcasting bloodthirsty tales of traitorous wives, greedy mistresses, cunning fema…
1 year, 9 months ago
Adam Franklin-Lyons, "Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (Penn State Press, 2022)
Episode 84
Adam Franklin-Lyons joins Jana Byars to talk about Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (Penn State Press, 2022). In the late fou…
1 year, 9 months ago
Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 23
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Reich and occupied territories. After the war, the f…
1 year, 9 months ago
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 508
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across t…
1 year, 9 months ago
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 41
Year 2008 marked the introduction of a new economic governance regime in the European Union (EU) in response to the global financial crisis. Politici…
1 year, 9 months ago