Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
Episode 88
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the industrial district of the North Staffordshire Potteries dominated the British earthenware indust…
2 years, 8 months ago
Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
Episode 1378
Fake news about the past is fake history.
Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot th…2 years, 8 months ago
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 77
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored po…
2 years, 8 months ago
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
Episode 86
What do the histories of currency and monetary policy tell us about societies at large, political structures, and cultures? Ekaterina Pravilova and R…
2 years, 9 months ago
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Episode 1377
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. …
2 years, 9 months ago
Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
Episode 1376
Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulat…
2 years, 9 months ago
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 75
In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Episode 1364
Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unen…
2 years, 9 months ago
Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)
Episode 51
Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century…
2 years, 9 months ago
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 54
Leonie Hannan's book Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth Century Home (Manchester University Press, 2023) explores the practice of scient…
2 years, 9 months ago