Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 100
While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a print…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Episode 26
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against…
3 years, 3 months ago
Spencer Jones, "The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917" (Helion and Company, 2021)
Episode 134
In The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917 (Helion and Company, 2021), leading First World War historians examine key aspects of…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 114
From Gail Borden’s meat biscuit to John Harvey Kellogg’s peptogenic foods for race betterment and Fleishmann’s yeast as both technology of empire and…
3 years, 3 months ago
M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 174
In India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind (Routledge, 2022), M. Christhu Doss brings together some of the most cutting-edge thoughts by c…
3 years, 3 months ago
Suzanne Francis-Brown, "World War II Camps in Jamaica: Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War" (U West Indies Press, 2022)
Episode 94
Between 1939 and 1947, the Caribbean island of Jamaica--then a British colony--was haven or detention centre for thousands of displaced Europeans; an…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
Episode 50
What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather od…
3 years, 3 months ago
John Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)
Episode 59
The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture (Birlinn, 2022) by John Goodlad is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 205
How were understandings of chance, luck, and fortune affected by early capitalist developments such as the global expansion of English trade and colo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Francis M. Carroll, "America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 38
On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation f…
3 years, 4 months ago