Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 175
In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout th…
2 years, 6 months ago
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 55
It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being …
2 years, 6 months ago
H. E. Sawyer, "I Am the Dark Tourist: Messenger of Remembrance" (Headpress, 2023)
Episode 174
Dark tourism is the practice of visiting sites associated with death and disaster. Participation is increasing, yet much of the machinations behind d…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 1388
Sima Saigal's The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears (Routledge, 2022) discusses the untold story of North East India's ro…
2 years, 6 months ago
Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 59
Meat, Mercy, and Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Samiparna Samanta disenta…
2 years, 6 months ago
John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)
Episode 163
Post-independence India had a big problem–about 40% of its land wasn’t, well, India. Instead, this land was in the hands of the princely states: Rule…
2 years, 6 months ago
Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 106
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the 'Bi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 508
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2021) is a fascinatin…
2 years, 6 months ago
Andrekos Varnava, "British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 1358
Most of the Cypriot population, especially the lower classes, remained loyal to the British cause during the Great War and the island contributed sig…
2 years, 6 months ago
G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
Episode 208
The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines th…
2 years, 6 months ago