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Back to SearchLaura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 473
Is Orwell still relevant today?
In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at Am…
2 years, 2 months ago
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
Episode 273
Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting the church. But for centuries, theological disagr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
Episode 75
Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland …
2 years, 3 months ago
David A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)
Episode 1464
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated …
2 years, 3 months ago
Gilad Sharvit, "Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
Episode 532
Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought (Brandeis UP, 2022) proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of mes…
2 years, 3 months ago
David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)
Episode 1460
In The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis (Mercier Press, 2024), David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of …
2 years, 3 months ago
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 309
In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Nancy Mason Bradbury…
2 years, 3 months ago
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 206
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Br…
2 years, 3 months ago
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 35
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way im…
2 years, 3 months ago
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 30
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, a…
2 years, 3 months ago