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1501
John W. Tweeddale, "John Owen and Hebrews: The ...
John Owen is one of the most significant seventeenth-century Protestant theologians...
36 min
1502
David Woodbridge, "Missionary Primitivism and C...
Woodbridge focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and documents the attempts made by their missionaries in China during the first half of the twentieth century...
25 min
1503
Max Edelson, "The New Map of Empire: How Britai...
Edelson shows how the Crown and the Board of Trade initiated the mapping of every new corner of Britain’s American dominions – places that were also the ancestral homes of Native Americans and the site of emerging settler republics...
53 min
1504
Scott S. Reese, “Imperial Muslims: Islam, Commu...
Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...
61 min
1505
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult...
Does publishing have a diversity problem?
36 min
1506
Ryan Hackenbracht, "National Reckonings: The La...
Hackenbracht's book opens up questions about how seventeenth-century writers understood the Christian doctrine of the last judgement, and how the thought of that final reckoning shaped new attitudes to church and to nation....
39 min
1507
William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradi...
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...
45 min
1508
Jeremy Black, "Imperial Legacies: The British E...
Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.
44 min
1509
Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigran...
Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...
36 min
1510
Richard Hingley, "Londinium: A Biography" (Rout...
From its humble beginnings as a crossing point over the river Thames Londinium grew into the largest city in Roman Britain...
47 min
1511
Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
1512
Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of...
Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...
32 min
1513
Jeremy Black, "Charting the Past: The Historica...
Eighteenth-century England was a place of both the enlightenment and progress: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, philosophy, religion, and the arts...
28 min
1514
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War...
Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...
46 min
1515
Kathleen Burk, "The Lion and the Eagle: The Int...
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...
70 min
1516
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the Eng...
Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships...
48 min
1517
Brooke Newman, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race...
In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?
63 min
1518
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
1519
Andrew T. Fede, "Homicide Justified: The Legali...
Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.
53 min
1520
Prakash Shah, "Western Foundations of the Caste...
The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?
58 min
1521
Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Strug...
Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...
51 min
1522
Whitney G. Gamble, "Christ and the Law: Antinom...
The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...
33 min
1523
Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese ...
There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years...
55 min
1524
Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independen...
Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...
64 min
1525
Farhana Shaikh, "From Imposter to Impact: Arts ...
What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?
32 min