Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
Episode 87
Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount of literary variety (Latin varietas). Furthermore,…
1 year, 3 months ago
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, "Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947-2022" (Leuven UP, 2024)
Episode 206
The road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the thro…
1 year, 3 months ago
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 88
The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
Episode 154
The story of King Henry VIII, a man who married six times only to execute two of those wives, is part of Great Britain’s national and international i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 240
'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's hist…
1 year, 3 months ago
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 239
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role…
1 year, 3 months ago
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 155
The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (Bloomsbury, 2025) a new addition to the Object Le…
1 year, 3 months ago
Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 263
Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge UP, 2024) traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian m…
1 year, 3 months ago
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 237
From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention…
1 year, 3 months ago
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 1542
James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actu…
1 year, 4 months ago