New Books in British Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.
Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com
Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork
1526
Lauren Working, "The Making of an Imperial Poli...
Working examines a complex trans-Atlantic process of the movement of objects, ideas, and cultural mixing...
29 min
1527
Daniel Kennefick, "No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919...
Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...
36 min
1528
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German...
Gemeiner-Bihler compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories...
63 min
1529
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (R...
A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...
66 min
1530
Kim A. Wagner, "Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fea...
Wagner puts this act of colonial violence in its proper historical context...
74 min
1531
Graham T. Clews, "Churchill’s Phoney War: A Stu...
Dr. Clews examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill’s ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested...
58 min
1532
Ingrid Horrocks, "Women Wanderers and the Writi...
Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature, particularly in the work of women writers...
31 min
1533
Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, ...
In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.
64 min
1534
David Head, "A Crisis of Peace: George Washingt...
In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York...
54 min
1535
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
1536
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleo...
Payne describes the adventurous life of the third Marquess of Londonderry and the roles he played in the events of his time....
65 min
1537
James M. Vaughn, "The Politics of Empire at the...
Vaughn offers an powerful challenge to the received view that the Asian domains were acquired by accident and formed part of an empire of liberty.,,
39 min
1538
Sidharthan Maunaguru, "Marrying for a Future: T...
Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’...
67 min
1539
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...
73 min
1540
Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, Wha...
Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...
46 min
1541
Richard Whatmore, "Terrorists, Anarchists, and ...
Whatmore tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire...
74 min
1542
Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary ...
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...
44 min
1543
Eleanor Parker, "Dragon Lords: The History and ...
For all of their prominence in the popular imagination today, the historical record of the Viking presence in England is limited...
19 min
1544
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1545
Sally Holloway, "The Game of Love in Georgian E...
What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture?
38 min
1546
Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice ...
After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile...
31 min
1547
Stephen R. Taaffe, "Washington’s Revolutionary ...
Taaffe describes the roles Washington's commanders played and their contributions to the war effort...
41 min
1548
What Should We Think of the British Empire?
The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe...
46 min
1549
Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
50 min
1550
David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The ...
Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...
75 min