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1601
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
1602
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult...
Does publishing have a diversity problem?
36 min
1603
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
1604
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
1605
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
1606
Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigran...
Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...
36 min
1607
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
1608
Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
1609
Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of...
Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...
32 min
1610
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
1611
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
1612
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
1613
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
1614
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
1615
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
1616
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
1617
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
1618
Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Strug...
Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...
51 min
1619
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
1620
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
1621
Farhana Shaikh, "From Imposter to Impact: Arts ...
What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?
32 min
1622
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Cu...
How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?
34 min
1623
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
1624
Matthew Bingham, "Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Id...
Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...
35 min
1625
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...
54 min