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Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, "Estranging the Novel: ...
An interview with Katarzyna Bartoszyńska
26 min
177
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christi...
An interview with Crawford Gribben
37 min
178
Michael Braddick, "A Useful History of Britain:...
An interview with Michael Braddick
20 min
179
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: ...
An interview with José Vergara
54 min
180
Gregory Vargo, "Chartist Drama" (Manchester UP,...
An interview with Gregory Vargo
47 min
181
Sonja Tiernan, "The History of Marriage Equalit...
An interview with Sonja Tiernan
50 min
182
Elizabeth Boyle, "History and Salvation in Medi...
An interview with Elizabeth Boyle
43 min
183
Virginia Miller, "Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries ...
An interview with Virginia Miller
53 min
184
Larry Kirwan, "Rockaway Blue" (Cornell UP, 2021)
An interview with Larry Kirwan
40 min
185
Robert Snyder, "All the Nations Under Heaven: I...
An Interview with Robert Snyder
25 min
186
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Britain 1851-...
An interview with Jeremy Black
39 min
187
Kenneth Shonk, "Ireland's New Traditionalists: ...
An interview with Kenneth Shonk
52 min
188
Caroline Ritter, "Imperial Encore: The Cultural...
An interview with Caroline Ritter
40 min
189
Roy Flechner, "Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend...
An interview with Roy Flechner
46 min
190
Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Cat...
An interview with Michael J. Pfeifer
73 min
191
Gerry Smyth, "Sailor Song: The Shanties and Bal...
An interview with Gerry Smyth
53 min
192
N. Mclaughlin and J. Braniff, "How Belfast Got ...
Braniff and McLaughlin center Belfast, the complex political situation of Northern Ireland just before the Troubles, and the Blues...
68 min
193
Audrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Se...
Audrey Horning revisits the fraught connections between Ireland and colonial Virginia...
83 min
194
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxfo...
The book takes readers through Greek, Latin, Old English and the Germanic Languages, Sanskrit, Old Irish and the Celtic Languages, and Hebrew, introducing their phonology, morphology, lexicons, grammar, and excerpting passages from texts such as the Illiad, Beowulf, and the Rig Veda...
62 min
195
Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: ...
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mismanaged, and its particular impact on a small, open economy, Patrick Honohan's book...
46 min
196
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain: 1945 to Br...
According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why the British went from being ‘Romans to Italians’...
68 min
197
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min
198
Nadine El-Enany, "Bordering Britain: Law, Race ...
How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society?
43 min
199
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself?
43 min
200
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