The authors present nine mini-biographies that outline key events in the lives of individuals including Anne Bradstreet, John Eliot, John Cotton and Cotton Mather...

In Farm to Form, Martell contextualizes some familiar texts of British Literary Modernism, into a history that recognizes the role of food and agriculture...

Alison Games shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries...

Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?

Dorner unravels the intertwined history of financial markets, health concerns, and colonial warfare...

Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...

Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...

According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why the British went from being ‘Romans to Italians’...

A hospital run by two suffragette doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray...

McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...

White focuses on the movement that became known as the Calvinistic Methodists, a community that emerged under the leadership of outstanding organisers, orators and hymnwriters....

Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...

Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....

This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...

Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...

Throughout the seventeenth century, and on both sides of the Atlantic, William Perkins exercised enormous influence on the ways in which protestants approached the reading of the Bible and thought about the practice of preaching...

Suzuki provides an insightful perspective to the growing scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery by shifting focus onto those who profited from the slave trade...

Romaniello examines the workings of the British Russia Company and the commercial entanglements of the British and Russian empires in the long eighteenth century...

Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...

Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...

In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau was taken by someone else....

During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Europe....

This book sits right at the intersection of all three of these subfields and contributes to our understanding of the lived experience of religion, the lived experience of gender, ideas about ‘nature,’ and, of course, the history of medicine...

James examines the origins and progression of British Junglism in the 1990s...