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1526
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Cri...
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?
50 min
1527
Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-190...
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.
31 min
1528
Aimee Fox, "Learning to Fight: Military Innovat...
Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British Army of the First World War. Yet the need to learn from mistakes, to exploit new opportunities and to adapt to complex and novel situations are always necessary...
31 min
1529
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1530
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself?
43 min
1531
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early ...
Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?
32 min
1532
S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
61 min
1533
Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: ...
Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...
33 min
1534
Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Li...
Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...
59 min
1535
Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colon...
In 2015, University of Toronto professor Julie MacArthur decided to follow a couple more leads in the search for the long-missing, feared-lost transcript of the trial of legendary Mau Mau leader Dedan KImathi...
58 min
1536
Alan Gallay, "Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empir...
Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way...
84 min
1537
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
41 min
1538
Christian J. Koot, "A Biography of a Map in Mot...
This is a map that proclaims empire: from the prominent royal arms, to the ships riding at anchor out in what is labelled the ‘North Sea’...
22 min
1539
Christopher Frank, "Workers, Unions and Payment...
The passage of the 1831 Truck Act was intended to end throughout the United Kingdom the practice of paying employees in truck, or goods, rather than in money...
52 min
1540
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
1541
Penny Sinanoglou, "Partitioning Palestine: Brit...
Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact...
54 min
1542
Paul Lay, "Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall o...
"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...
38 min
1543
Gerald Dawe, "The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays ...
Dawe gathers work from the 1980s to the present day that reflects upon the problem of Protestant culture in Northern Ireland. In this careful and deliberate work,..
37 min
1544
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
1545
Jeremy Black, "Geographies of an Imperial Power...
A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?
26 min
1546
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
1547
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
1548
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
1549
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
1550
Kim A. Wagner, "Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fea...
Wagner puts this act of colonial violence in its proper historical context...
74 min