Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Episode 70
Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late mediaeval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, midwives - these ar…
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Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 217
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? …
1 year, 11 months ago
Shahmima Akhtar, "Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 68
Shahmima Akhtar is a historian of race, migration and empire and an assistant professor of Black and Asian British History at the University of Birmi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 94
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most privat…
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Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 1451
Simon Heffer's book Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars (Penguin, 2024) is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultu…
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Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 232
Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2023) is a study of the travels of colonial law into the Nor…
1 year, 11 months ago
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 215
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and …
1 year, 11 months ago
Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 126
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?
Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in Engl…
1 year, 11 months ago
M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 37
In Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell UP, 2023), M. Girard Dorsey uncovers just …
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Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 133
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Harry McCarthy provides a new appro…
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