Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBoyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 1361
It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of th…
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Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 170
South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. Thula Simpson's History of South Af…
2 years, 8 months ago
Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 413
What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
Episode 88
Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. …
2 years, 8 months ago
Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 255
Debapriya Sarkar’s new book, titled Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) is a study of how poe…
2 years, 8 months ago
Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 99
What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 …
2 years, 8 months ago
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Episode 1354
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of…
2 years, 8 months ago
Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 19
Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wa…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jamie Bronstein, "The Happiness of the British Working Class" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 98
For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedo…
2 years, 8 months ago
David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 254
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while …
2 years, 8 months ago