Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 1342
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in whi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 404
Why does the financial sector matter? In How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance (Bristol UP, 2023), Philip Roscoe, a …
2 years, 10 months ago
Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 61
This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, i…
2 years, 10 months ago
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017" (Headpress, 2023)
Episode 163
In his new book B-Sides: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017 (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music…
2 years, 10 months ago
Share and Share Alike: Researching Sibling Relationships in Eighteenth-Century England
Episode 167
What defines the complicated relationship between brothers and sisters—is it lineage? Love? Obligation? Friendship? Need? And why did so many parents…
2 years, 10 months ago
James B. Conroy, "The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Episode 28
The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War (Simon and Schuster, 2023) is a character-driven account of the Casablanca…
2 years, 10 months ago
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 1341
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 403
How did the rise of consumerism impact Britain? In In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style (Manchester UP, 2023), Ben Highmore,…
2 years, 10 months ago
Diya Gupta, "India in the Second World War: An Emotional History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 200
In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivid…
2 years, 10 months ago
Finola O'Kane, "Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)
Episode 47
Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815 (Yale University Press, 2023) by Dr. Finola O’Kane explores how revolutio…
2 years, 10 months ago