Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic val…
1 year, 4 months ago
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobac…
1 year, 4 months ago
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 9
As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester UP, 2021) details the activism that made m…
1 year, 5 months ago
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 194
How did public demand shape education in the 20th century? In The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second …
1 year, 5 months ago
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 138
Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity (Oxford UP, 2024) dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in earl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Oskar Jensen, "Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London" (The Experiment, 2024)
Episode 152
London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable ac…
1 year, 5 months ago
Caitlin Davies, "Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks" (The History Press, 2021)
Episode 110
Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks (The History Press, 2021) tells the incredible story of Britain's female gangster…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 109
In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories of women who brought 19th century criminals to jus…
1 year, 5 months ago
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
Episode 337
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influentia…
1 year, 5 months ago
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1529
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.
This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conser…
1 year, 5 months ago