Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 21
How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the ca…
1 year, 9 months ago
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 234
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 151
Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. Shoes and the Georgian Man (Bloomsbury, 2025) by Dr. Matthew McCormack reveals how shoes…
1 year, 9 months ago
Terrence C. Petty, "Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 18
After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants wer…
1 year, 9 months ago
Hélène Tessier, "Laplanche's Vocabulary" (PUF, 2024)
Episode 251
In Vocabulaire de Laplanche (PUF, 2024), edited by the renowned scholar and analyst, Hélène Tessier, several of the key readers of Jean Laplanche's w…
1 year, 9 months ago
David Mckinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 76
Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study (Routledge, 2025) considers Samuel Beckett's fiction and drama as major aesthetic and th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)
Episode 153
Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get…
1 year, 9 months ago
Michelle D. Brock, "Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 15
Using a wide range of archival material and a microhistorical approach, Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottis…
1 year, 9 months ago
April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 12
How do Black women experience education in Britain?
Within British educational research about Black students, gender distinctions have been largely ab…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 14
Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Bianca Lopez takes an original approach to …
1 year, 9 months ago