Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 130
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events …
1 year, 9 months ago
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that dramatic narratives about mon…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ella Houston, "Advertising Disability" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 48
Ella Houston's book Advertising Disability (Routledge, 2024) invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiq…
1 year, 9 months ago
George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Episode 249
An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music.
There are many different Englands. From the much-romanticized rolling countrysid…
1 year, 9 months ago
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)
Episode 90
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the s…
1 year, 9 months ago
Paul Koudounaris, "Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion" (Thames & Hudson, 2024)
Episode 68
Losing a pet has always been a unique kind of pain. No set rituals exist to help provide closure when pets die, there are no readily shared passages …
1 year, 10 months ago
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
Episode 15
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global C…
1 year, 10 months ago
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 71
Katharine Sykes joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Symbolic Representation in Early Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2024). In th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 194
In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Andrew Denning uncovers how road…
1 year, 10 months ago
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 162
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society who…
1 year, 10 months ago