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1601
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
1602
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
1603
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
1604
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
1605
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
1606
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
1607
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
1608
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
1609
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
1610
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
1611
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
1612
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
1613
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
1614
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
1615
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
1616
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
1617
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
1618
John W. Tweeddale, "John Owen and Hebrews: The ...
John Owen is one of the most significant seventeenth-century Protestant theologians...
36 min
1619
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
1620
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
1621
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
1622
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult...
Does publishing have a diversity problem?
36 min
1623
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
1624
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
1625
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