Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
Episode 127
The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Brit…
2 years, 3 months ago
Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic
Episode 24
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion cl…
2 years, 3 months ago
Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 132
Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongsid…
2 years, 3 months ago
Shahmima Akhtar, "Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 68
Shahmima Akhtar is a historian of race, migration and empire and an assistant professor of Black and Asian British History at the University of Birmi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 217
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? …
2 years, 3 months ago
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Episode 70
Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late mediaeval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, midwives - these ar…
2 years, 3 months ago
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 69
During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fa…
2 years, 3 months ago
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 94
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most privat…
2 years, 3 months ago
Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
Episode 34
In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of their go…
2 years, 3 months ago
Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 1451
Simon Heffer's book Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars (Penguin, 2024) is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultu…
2 years, 4 months ago