New Books in British Studies
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1401
Sir John Redwood, "We Don't Believe You: Why Po...
Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections...
56 min
1402
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1403
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "F...
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...
50 min
1404
Mathias Haeussler, "Helmut Schmidt and British-...
The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982..
35 min
1405
Christopher J. Lee, "Unreasonable Histories: Na...
Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia...
81 min
1406
The Origins of World War One
Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?
65 min
1407
Elizabeth Goldring, "Nicholas Hilliard: Life of...
Limning – the painting of miniature portraits – was an important art form in 16th-century Europe. Among its greatest practitioners was Nicholas Hilliard...
57 min
1408
Jamie L. H. Goodall, "Pirates of the Chesapeake...
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy...
44 min
1409
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Cri...
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?
50 min
1410
Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-190...
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.
31 min
1411
Aimee Fox, "Learning to Fight: Military Innovat...
Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British Army of the First World War. Yet the need to learn from mistakes, to exploit new opportunities and to adapt to complex and novel situations are always necessary...
31 min
1412
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1413
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself?
43 min
1414
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early ...
Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?
32 min
1415
S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
61 min
1416
Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: ...
Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...
33 min
1417
Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Li...
Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...
59 min
1418
Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colon...
In 2015, University of Toronto professor Julie MacArthur decided to follow a couple more leads in the search for the long-missing, feared-lost transcript of the trial of legendary Mau Mau leader Dedan KImathi...
58 min
1419
Alan Gallay, "Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empir...
Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way...
84 min
1420
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
41 min
1421
Christian J. Koot, "A Biography of a Map in Mot...
This is a map that proclaims empire: from the prominent royal arms, to the ships riding at anchor out in what is labelled the ‘North Sea’...
22 min
1422
Christopher Frank, "Workers, Unions and Payment...
The passage of the 1831 Truck Act was intended to end throughout the United Kingdom the practice of paying employees in truck, or goods, rather than in money...
52 min
1423
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
1424
Paul Lay, "Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall o...
"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...
38 min
1425
Penny Sinanoglou, "Partitioning Palestine: Brit...
Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact...
54 min