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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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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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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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Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 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
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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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Kenneth Womack, "Solid State: The Story of Abbe...
To what degree did each of The Beatles exhibit emotional intelligence in the band’s final year?
44 min
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Amy Harris, "Siblinghood and Social Relations i...
Harris examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society...
81 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Coryne Hall, "Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: ...
The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the autocratic Romanov dynasty...
39 min
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Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Figh...
Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...
43 min
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Mary Fraser, "Policing the Home Front, 1914-191...
When Britain went to war in 1914, policemen throughout Great Britain found themselves called upon to perform an ever-increasing range of new tasks that reflected the expanded power of the British state in wartime...
44 min
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Stanley D. M. Carpenter, "Southern Gambit: Corn...
Charles Lord Cornwallis’s campaign through the southern American colonies came to an ignominious close on October 19, 1781, on an open field outside Yorktown, Virginia...
56 min
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Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antig...
Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans and Barbudans experienced freedom in the immediate years before and decades after British emancipation in 1834...
71 min