Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchConor Lucey, "House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life" (Four Courts Press, 2022)
Episode 49
Conor Lucey's book House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life (Four Courts Press, 2022) explores the everyday character…
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Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
Episode 91
A rich and indulgent history, English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022) by Dr. Diane Purk…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 148
When Robert Clive, the man who established Company rule in India was hauled in front of Parliament to answer for crimes of corruption, he allegedly r…
2 years, 9 months ago
Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)
Episode 90
After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period of British his…
2 years, 9 months ago
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Episode 122
The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment:…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Episode 1345
In Smollett's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2022), acclaimed British historian Jeremy Black examines the layers of craft and insight in Tobias Smol…
2 years, 9 months ago
Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 89
Simon Mills' book A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760 (Oxford UP, 2020) tells…
2 years, 9 months ago
Phillip Reid, "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America" (Boydell Press, 2023)
Episode 188
The small Boston-built schooner Sultana served as a customs-enforcement interceptor on the North American eastern seaboard in the period leading up t…
2 years, 9 months ago
Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)
Episode 147
The legacy of the businessmen who built Hong Kong are all over the city. Bankers work in Chater House—named after Paul Chater, the Armenian businessm…
2 years, 9 months ago
Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 187
Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michael Roper documents the lives and historical pursuits of the…
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