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Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?
63 min
1477
David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of Ja...
For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...
68 min
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Robert Crowcroft, "The End is Nigh: British Pol...
Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...
72 min
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Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Lite...
Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...
65 min
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Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
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Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
57 min
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Tim Bouverie, "Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler...
Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...
37 min
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Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stor...
A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...
61 min
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Edward Vallance, "Loyalty, Memory and Public Op...
Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...
54 min
1485
David Green, "The Hundred Years War: A People’s...
The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War...
51 min
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Jonathan Fennell, "Fighting the People's War: T...
Fennell challenges our understanding of the Second World War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change...
59 min
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Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The R...
Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...
136 min
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Jeremy Black, "The English Press: A History" (B...
Black focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological...
60 min
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Dannel Jones, "An African in Imperial London: T...
In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...
61 min
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Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, "The Solemn League and C...
MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...
32 min
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John West, "Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, ...
John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...
35 min
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Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Col...
"Properties of Empire" challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America...
82 min
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Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self:...
Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...
44 min
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Veronica Hinke, "The Last Night on the Titanic:...
Hinke tells the stories of millionaires and pastry chefs, popcorn vendors, and perfume salesmen, all gathered aboard the gargantuan ship for its celebrated maiden voyage in 1912.
50 min
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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters ...
Erika recounts the special relationship between two intellectual juggernauts, Huxley and Osmond, and their discussions about drugs, addiction, and death and dying...
53 min
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Ryan Hanley, "Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Bla...
Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...
45 min
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James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Ca...
Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...
62 min
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Hadrian's Wall" (Basic Boo...
For centuries the purpose of Hadrian’s Wall, and the life of those who built it and lived near it, were shrouded in archaeological mystery...
54 min
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Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Ro...
Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....
48 min
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Guy Beiner, "Forgetful Remembering: Social Forg...
Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...
33 min