Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBarbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)
Episode 1467
Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into …
2 years, 2 months ago
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 62
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediae…
2 years, 2 months ago
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that dramatic narratives about mon…
2 years, 2 months ago
George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Episode 249
An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music.
There are many different Englands. From the much-romanticized rolling countrysid…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Episode 543
The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of Jewish-Christian relations. Co…
2 years, 2 months ago
Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)
Episode 112
With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains…
2 years, 2 months ago
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 71
Katharine Sykes joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Symbolic Representation in Early Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2024). In th…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 1150
For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University Pr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 190
Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). Spli…
2 years, 2 months ago
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 539
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives. Pacifists in th…
2 years, 2 months ago