Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
Episode 161
The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow Briti…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 198
When one thinks of your typical horror movie and it’s usual imagery, a number of tropes may come forward. Graveyards behind old cathedrals, crucifixe…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)
Episode 54
Æthelflæd (c. 870–918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English history…
2 years, 6 months ago
Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
Episode 116
In Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language (Luath, 2023), Dr. Clive Young sets out to uncover the secret life of Scots – the centuries…
2 years, 6 months ago
Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)
Episode 204
In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066 (Osprey, 2023) reveals the l…
2 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth DeYoung, "Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Episode 52
In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in North Belfast was hailed as a ‘symbol of hope’ fo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 203
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both …
2 years, 7 months ago
Rory Coulter, "Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 104
Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic, and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between h…
2 years, 7 months ago
Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 89
The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Wm. Matthew Kennedy tells the st…
2 years, 7 months ago
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Episode 1377
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. …
2 years, 7 months ago