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On George Eliot's "Middlemarch"
Episode 84
By the time we reach middle age, our lives have taken certain paths. Sometimes these paths are close to what we imagined in our youth. But more often…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stephen Bourne, "Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45" (The History Press, 2020)
Episode 70
In Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 (The History Press, 2020), Stephen Bourne tells the whole story of Britain's black community during W…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
Episode 145
A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
In 1934, a friend brou…
3 years, 6 months ago
Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)
Episode 31
Aidan Enright holds a PhD in History from Queen’s University Belfast and is an Associate Researcher and Part-Time Lecturer in History at Leeds Becket…
3 years, 6 months ago
Frans Camphuijsen, "Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Episode 17
Frans Camphuijsen explored records from the law courts of York, Paris, and Utrecht and used them as a base for Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Eur…
3 years, 6 months ago
Robert J. Savage, "Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 30
Robert J. Savage is a professor in the Boston College History Department and served as one of the directors of the University’s Irish Studies program…
3 years, 6 months ago
What is the Future of Populism?
Episode 103
The world's wealthier countries have in recent years faced challenges from right-wing populist parties and movements that may rejuvenate origins from…
3 years, 6 months ago
Caroline Roope, "The History of the London Underground Map" (Pen and Sword Transport, 2022)
Episode 69
Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London’s iconic ‘Tube’ map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, d…
3 years, 6 months ago
Deiter Reinisch, "Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Episode 29
Dieter Reinisch is a Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Fellow in the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, and …
3 years, 6 months ago
Gregor Gall, "The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 173
Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a…
3 years, 6 months ago