Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRabiat Akande, "Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 186
Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireli…
2 years, 2 months ago
Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
Episode 233
This is a story of four composers whose careers, lives and loves as women working in 20th century Britain have since been largely forgotten.
Dr Leah B…
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Katie Barclay, "Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 68
Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and correspon…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ben Highmore, "Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 118
In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
Episode 204
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)
Episode 148
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I. Ch…
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Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
Episode 67
In 1717, the Council of Trade and Plantations received "agreeable news" from New England. "Bellamy with his ship and Company" had perished on the sho…
2 years, 2 months ago
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Episode 180
It’s very easy to study the history of the British Empire from the perspective of, well, the British–and to extend the early 20th century version of …
2 years, 2 months ago
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 289
Coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, pigs. Each of these objects were ubiquitous in the premodern cultural representation of the Irish. Through case st…
2 years, 2 months ago
An Oral History Archive of World War One: A Discussion with Peter Liddle
Episode 230
Peter Liddle OBE FRHistS (born 1934) is a British historian and author specialising in the study of the First and Second World Wars. In 1968 Liddle s…
2 years, 2 months ago