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Back to SearchAaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Episode 244
Today’s guest is Aaron Kunin, Professor of English at Pomona College. We will discuss two books Aaron published in 2019: the first is Character as Fo…
2 years, 9 months ago
Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 198
Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form …
2 years, 9 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
Episode 1348
Today I talked to Jeremy Black about his new book Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain (Amberley Publishing, 2023).
Britain's key importa…
2 years, 9 months ago
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 93
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth…
2 years, 9 months ago
Samrat Choudhury, "Northeast India: A Political History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 149
For much of the past three months, the northeastern Indian state of Manipur—nestled right up against the border with Myanmar—has been the site of a c…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
Episode 92
How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English …
2 years, 9 months ago
Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 203
In The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2021), Thomas Simpson provides an innovative acc…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 1347
Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and…
2 years, 9 months ago
Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Episode 239
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (U Wales Press, 2022) demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)
Episode 1346
The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Tho…
2 years, 9 months ago