Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 111
The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. Yet the focus on its monarchs' private lives and ministers' cons…
2 years, 3 months ago
Richard T. Rodríguez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 180
In A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (Duke UP, 2022), Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relatio…
2 years, 4 months ago
Florence Mok, "Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c.1966-97" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 514
Florence Mok's book Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c.1966-97 (Manchester UP, 2023) is timel…
2 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 124
A gripping account of the violence and turmoil that engulfed England’s fledgling colonies and the crucial role played by Native Americans in determin…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 102
Until Jessica Hinchy’s latest book, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), ther…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
Episode 122
In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, w…
2 years, 4 months ago
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 172
The East India Company was a unique entity in world history: More than just a commercial enterprise, the Company tried to act as its own government. …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Future of School Reform: A Discussion with Alison Colwell
Episode 95
Educationalists sometimes argue that the best way to improve a failing school is to appoint a strict principal or head, and this is sometimes the cas…
2 years, 4 months ago
Why are there more women in parliament than ever before, and does it matter?
Episode 8
Why do some countries do better than others in advancing women as political leaders and in promoting women’s rights? And what difference does this ma…
2 years, 4 months ago
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 221
In A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution (Basic Books, 2024), award-winning reporter Anna Reid tells the extraordin…
2 years, 4 months ago