Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily Vine, "Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1160
Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for al…
1 year ago
Zach Fredman and Judd Kinzley eds., "Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1158
This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War.…
1 year ago
Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1157
The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Martin Austin Nesvig tells the stories o…
1 year, 1 month ago
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1156
The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers ha…
1 year, 1 month ago
Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India, 1860-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1155
Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. In …
1 year, 1 month ago
j. Siguru Wahutu, "In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1154
In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa (Cambridge UP, 2025) unpacks the historical, cultural, and institutional forces …
1 year, 1 month ago
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 870
In this episode we speak to Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Professor of History at the University of Reading about her new book Medieval Meteorology: Forecas…
1 year, 1 month ago
Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1152
TransGenre (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. …
1 year, 1 month ago
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 1151
Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? In Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces…
1 year, 1 month ago
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1150
Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) returns to…
1 year, 1 month ago