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Back to SearchSara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 109
In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories of women who brought 19th century criminals to jus…
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Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
Episode 337
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influentia…
1 year, 10 months ago
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 504
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri B…
1 year, 10 months ago
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
Episode 264
Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1529
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.
This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conser…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 503
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new pla…
1 year, 10 months ago
John Eglin, "The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 89
John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Oxford UP, 2023). Gambling cap…
1 year, 10 months ago
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 1528
In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Episode 502
How do ordinary people write the stories of their lives? In A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), Rebecca Ball…
1 year, 10 months ago
Amy Helen Bell, "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 150
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circli…
1 year, 10 months ago