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1401
Vernon Bogdanor, "Beyond Brexit: Towards a Brit...
An interview with Vernon Bogdanov
38 min
1402
Jen Manion, "Female Husbands: A Trans History" ...
An interview with Jen Manion
60 min
1403
Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British M...
An interview with Donald F. Johnson
32 min
1404
Ronald Hutton, "The Triumph of the Moon: A Hist...
An interview with Ronald Hutton
26 min
1405
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis...
Interview with Tom Boniface-Webb
67 min
1406
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living ...
An interview with Peter Hart
60 min
1407
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1408
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes...
How we see the past helps shape our understanding of the present...
68 min
1409
Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" ...
Patel rethinks the development of the European Communities and the European Union from first principles...
38 min
1410
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
1411
Lloyd Bowen, "John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pem...
Bowen shows how John Poyer played a critical role in the civil wars...
40 min
1412
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
1413
Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged...
Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..
31 min
1414
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
1415
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
1416
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
1417
S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenmen...
78 min
1418
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
1419
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
1420
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
1421
Audrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Se...
Audrey Horning revisits the fraught connections between Ireland and colonial Virginia...
83 min
1422
T. C. F. Stunt, "The Life and Times of Samuel P...
Stunt shows how Tregelles moved from humble origins, overcoming educational barriers through ambition and determination, to become a serious rival to textual critics like Constantin von Tischendorf,..
36 min
1423
Sujit Sivasundaram, "Waves Across the South: A ...
71 min
1424
Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Mode...
Tracing the changes and evolution of writings on political counsel during the “monarchy of counsel,” from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War, Joanne Paul examines English thought in its domestic and transnational context...
76 min
1425
Richard Muller, "Grace and Freedom: William Per...
Muller argues that we need to re-think our understanding of the debate about “free will” – he prefers “free choice” – and divine sovereignty...
31 min