Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 359
How can the arts make the world a better place? In Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference (Policy Pre…
3 years, 3 months ago
Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 119
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023) by Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock presents a landmark work of narrative histor…
3 years, 3 months ago
Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 28
Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life (Reaktion Books, 2022) is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had fourteen childre…
3 years, 3 months ago
Adrian Fraser, "The 1935 Riots in St Vincent: From Riots to Adult Suffrage" (U West Indies Press, 2016)
Episode 97
St Vincent was among the earliest of the British Caribbean colonies to have experienced labour disturbances in the 1930s. While disturbances in the o…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, "The Sounds of Spectators at Football" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 241
The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted – by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers, …
3 years, 3 months ago
Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
Episode 175
Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was a British historian who was deeply shaken by the Great War (1914-1918) and sought to explore the history of differ…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elizabeth Lhost, "Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 293
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But profession…
3 years, 3 months ago
Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 209
In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two d…
3 years, 3 months ago
Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 132
For the past two decades, the arts and cultural establishment in the UK has been trying to engage a broader set of audiences in their work. Countless…
3 years, 3 months ago
Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 77
The story of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present.
Amusement arcades are an important part of British culture, yet discussions …
3 years, 3 months ago