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Back to SearchJack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 176
The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases—was reproduced widely across…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Susan Juster, "A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America" (UNC Press, 2025)
From Nevis to Newfoundland, Catholics were everywhere in English America. But often feared and distrusted, they hid in plain sight, deftly obscuring …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Prague: The Heart of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2025) traces Prague's origins in the ninth century through the end of the Cold War. Highlights …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57" (Routledge, 2016)
The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on t…
11 months ago
Steven Veerapen, "Witches: A King's Obsession" (Birlin, 2025)
Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, beli…
11 months ago
Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
Episode 358
The Book of Travels Ḥannā Diyāb: A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his trav…
11 months ago
Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires" (Boydell & Brewer, 2025)
In the long eighteenth century, as Britain grappled with the aftermath of the 1707 Acts of Union and consolidated a global empire, Welsh ‘Cambro-Brit…
11 months ago
Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
Episode 270
Maren A. Ehlers’s Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) examines the ways in which…
11 months ago
Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski, "An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death" (Hachette UK, 2025)
How did ordinary people live in Tudor England? This unique history unearths the ways they died to find out.
Uncovering thousands of coroners' reports,…
11 months, 1 week ago
Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Episode 180
The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational travel and small-states' diplomacy (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Jérémy Filet is the first…
11 months, 1 week ago