Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 141
Object Lessons is a Bloomsbury series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This interview focuses on Trenc…
3 years, 5 months ago
Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 55
A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to …
3 years, 5 months ago
Fearghus Roulston, "Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 34
Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History (Manchester UP, 2022) is an oral history of Belfast’s punk scene from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s tha…
3 years, 5 months ago
On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Episode 100
William Shakespeare is the greatest writer in history, and Hamlet is his greatest work. In Hamlet, Shakespeare gave us one of the first modern charac…
3 years, 5 months ago
Hester Barron, "The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 73
The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London (Manchester UP, 2022) shows why the study of schooling matters to the hist…
3 years, 5 months ago
Efram Sera-Shriar, "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Episode 17
Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022) examines Briti…
3 years, 5 months ago
Stephanie Decker, "Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History: British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 54
In this episode, I interview Prof. Stephanie Decker about her new book Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Comp…
3 years, 5 months ago
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
Episode 337
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influentia…
3 years, 5 months ago
Joanna Newman, "Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
Episode 333
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, an…
3 years, 5 months ago
On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
Episode 93
In the early 20th century, Europe and North America were undergoing a radical transformation. Scientific, technological, and political changes disrup…
3 years, 5 months ago