Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIan Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
Episode 672
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire…
2 years, 8 months ago
Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1358
When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this perio…
2 years, 8 months ago
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Episode 49
Deanne Williams's newest book, Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy (Bloombury, 2023), is a groundbreaking study…
2 years, 8 months ago
Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 252
Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Roman…
2 years, 8 months ago
Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 104
Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907 (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Oscar Webber is …
2 years, 8 months ago
John O'Donovan, "An Introduction to the Irish Civil War" (Mercier Press, 2022)
Episode 1357
During the Irish Civil War, events of late 1922 and early 1923 together with waves of 'dishonourable' killings created poisoned relations between Rep…
2 years, 8 months ago
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 97
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to…
2 years, 8 months ago
Charlotte Lydia Riley, "Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain " (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 412
Can Britain escape from being a nation trapped in its past? In Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023), Charlotte Lydi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 249
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Eli…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Episode 149
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant …
2 years, 8 months ago