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Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History ...
Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...
47 min
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Sasha Abramsky, "Little Wonder: The Fabulous St...
Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...
63 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
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....
57 min
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Nicholas B. Miller, "John Millar and the Scotti...
During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Europe....
63 min
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Olivia Weisser, "ll Composed: Sickness, Gender,...
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...
39 min
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Martin James, "State of Base: The Origins of Ju...
James examines the origins and progression of British Junglism in the 1990s...
45 min
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Nadine El-Enany, "Bordering Britain: Law, Race ...
How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society?
43 min
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Pritipuspa Mishra, "Language and the Making of ...
The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India...
69 min
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Junior Tomlin, "Junior Tomlin: Flyer and Cover ...
Featuring flyers and record covers Tomlin has created for the rave scene starting in the late 1980s, this is the first book which comprehensively and cohesively documents his work in this important UK subculture
55 min
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Lakshmi Subramanian, "The Sovereign and the Pir...
Subramanian offers an amphibious history written around the juncture of the nineteenth century, when the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids....
83 min
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Philip Reid, "The Merchant Ship in the British ...
Reid these vessels underwent considerable adaptation over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries in response to evolving technologies and the demands of their industry...
45 min
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Peter Naldrett, “Around the Coast in 80 Days" (...
Naldrett begins his enjoyable trip around the British coast with the notion that reaching the seaside for most Britons is a matter of only a 1-2 hour car ride...
48 min
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Kara Moskowitz, "Seeing Like A Citizen" (Ohio U...
Kara’s book is rigorously researched and beautifully written. She draws on both archival and life history methods to center rural Kenyans,...
50 min
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Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Explorat...
This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...
33 min
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Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
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Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Rea...
What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...
49 min
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Ali Meghji, "Black Middle-Class Britannia: Iden...
Maghji considers the identity of Britain’s Black middle-class by understanding culture and cultural consumption...
32 min
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Zachary Carter, "Price of Peace: Money, Democra...
Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century,..
36 min
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Alanna O’Malley, "The Diplomacy of Decolonisati...
In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...
59 min
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Oded Y. Steinberg, "Anglo-German Thought in the...
Steinberg analyses the emergence of a particular notion of a “Teutonic” identity among a group of scholars in England and Germany...
46 min
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Philip A. Craig, "The Bond of Grace and Duty in...
Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...
34 min
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Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Liv...
Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...
32 min
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Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 min
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Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The W...
"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.
56 min
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Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
34 min