Podcast Episodes

Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)

In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unex…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

John Barr, "1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2025)

The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many asp…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)

How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary four…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Emily Webber, "Mining Men: Britain's Last Kings of the Coalface" (Penguin, 2025)

The story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs.

Mining M…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Alice Hunt, "Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660" (Faber and Faber, 2024)

Alice Hunt’s Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade 1649-1650 (Faber and Faber, 2024) takes a chronological look at the current events, personaliti…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)

In 1818, a curious root arrived in a small English village, tucked—seemingly by accident—in a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanist w…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy

• Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by.

• Q…

1 year ago

Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)

How are working class women represented in contemporary culture? In Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture (Routledge, 2025), …

1 year ago

The Telegraph Takeover: Power, Profit & the Press

In the season finale of Ctrl Alt Deceit, Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones dig into the tangled web of media ownership, foreign influence and th…

1 year ago

Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)

Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is th…

1 year ago