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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: A...
An interview with Brian Deer
51 min
1377
Emma Griffin, "Bread Winner: An Intimate Histor...
An interview with Emma Griffin
61 min
1378
Nicholas McDowell, "Poet of Revolution: The Mak...
An interview with Nicholas McDowell
48 min
1379
L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and...
Interview with Louisiane Ferlier and Benedicte Miyamoto
59 min
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Daniel Todman, "Britain's War: A New World, 194...
An interview with Daniel Todman
48 min
1381
Vernon Bogdanor, "Beyond Brexit: Towards a Brit...
An interview with Vernon Bogdanov
38 min
1382
Jen Manion, "Female Husbands: A Trans History" ...
An interview with Jen Manion
60 min
1383
Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British M...
An interview with Donald F. Johnson
32 min
1384
Ronald Hutton, "The Triumph of the Moon: A Hist...
An interview with Ronald Hutton
26 min
1385
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis...
Interview with Tom Boniface-Webb
67 min
1386
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living ...
An interview with Peter Hart
60 min
1387
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1388
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes...
How we see the past helps shape our understanding of the present...
68 min
1389
Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" ...
Patel rethinks the development of the European Communities and the European Union from first principles...
38 min
1390
N. Mclaughlin and J. Braniff, "How Belfast Got ...
Braniff and McLaughlin center Belfast, the complex political situation of Northern Ireland just before the Troubles, and the Blues...
68 min
1391
Lloyd Bowen, "John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pem...
Bowen shows how John Poyer played a critical role in the civil wars...
40 min
1392
Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: A...
Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...
30 min
1393
Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged...
Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..
31 min
1394
Mark Somos, "American States of Nature: The Ori...
When we think of early American political thought, we tend to overlook the powerful influence of the natural environment on the formation of settlement in both theory and practice...
24 min
1395
Dinyar Patel, "Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Natio...
Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself....
89 min
1396
Gaby Mahlberg, "The English Republican Exiles i...
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good....
77 min
1397
S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenmen...
78 min
1398
Jeremy Black, "George III: Madness and Majesty"...
Black turns away from the image-making and back to the archives, and instead locates George's life within his age: as a king who faced the loss of key colonies, rebellion in Ireland, insurrection in London...
37 min
1399
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: ...
Mandler charts the tension between demands for democracy and the defence of meritocracy within both elite and public discourses, showing how this tension plays out in Britain’s complex and fragmented education system...
35 min
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George Musgrave, "Can Music Make You Sick?: Mea...
The authors propose that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic...
50 min