Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 255
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 253
An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian…
1 year, 5 months ago
Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 324
Today, I am excited to talk to Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz about the new collection of essays they have edited. Milton’s Moving Bodies (No…
1 year, 5 months ago
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 1516
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi G…
1 year, 6 months ago
Scott Anthony, "The Story of British Propaganda Film" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 223
'All art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the 'War on Terror' and beyond, The Story o…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
Episode 128
In this episode of Madison's Notes, we sit down with Julia Yost, senior editor at First Things and author of the new book Jane Austen's Darkness (Wi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alex Mayhew, "Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 254
The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an indu…
1 year, 6 months ago
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)
Episode 496
What happened to culture in 2020? In Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid (Repeater, 2024), Joy White, a Lecturer in Applied …
1 year, 6 months ago
Rachel Hope Cleves, "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 166
We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplan…
1 year, 6 months ago
Steven King et al., "In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
Episode 149
Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was…
1 year, 6 months ago