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Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)

40 mins; November 24, 2023

Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; November 24, 2023

Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)

45 mins; November 22, 2023

Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)

70 hours 47 mins; November 21, 2023

Ina Rupprecht, ed., "Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45)" (Waxmann Verlag, 2020)

74 hours 51 mins; November 21, 2023

Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)

49 mins; November 20, 2023

Lidia Katia C. Manzo, "Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown" (Springer, 2023)

59 mins; November 20, 2023

Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

49 mins; November 19, 2023

Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

55 mins; November 18, 2023

Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

54 mins; November 17, 2023

Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

43 mins; November 15, 2023

Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)

51 mins; November 14, 2023

Emma R. Jones, "Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

45 mins; November 13, 2023

Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)

54 mins; November 12, 2023

Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)

55 mins; November 12, 2023

Elizabeth DeYoung, "Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

30 mins; November 11, 2023

Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)

45 mins; November 10, 2023

Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy

61 hours 9 mins; November 08, 2023

Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

42 mins; November 07, 2023

Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)

51 mins; November 07, 2023

Rory Coulter, "Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities" (Policy Press, 2023)

50 mins; November 06, 2023

Jan Selling, "Romani Liberation: A Northern Perspective on Emancipatory Struggles and Progress" (Central European UP, 2022)

58 mins; November 05, 2023

Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)

85 hours 16 mins; November 02, 2023

Jennifer Saltzstein, "Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

63 hours 2 mins; November 01, 2023

Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)

65 hours 21 mins; October 31, 2023

Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 30, 2023

Simone Varriale, "Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration" (Bristol UP, 2023)

38 mins; October 29, 2023

Utsa Mukherjee, "Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families" (Policy Press, 2022)

37 mins; October 29, 2023

Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)

41 mins; October 29, 2023

Adam Bisno, "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; October 28, 2023

Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

95 hours 45 mins; October 23, 2023

Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)

42 mins; October 23, 2023

Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)

45 mins; October 23, 2023

Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

43 mins; October 22, 2023

Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)

50 mins; October 22, 2023

Sonja K. Pieck, "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

52 mins; October 22, 2023

Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)

60 hours 48 mins; October 21, 2023

Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)

77 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2023

Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

44 mins; October 18, 2023

Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

39 mins; October 18, 2023

Onyeka Nubia, "England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

67 hours 38 mins; October 17, 2023

Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)

43 mins; October 17, 2023

Tom Gallagher, "Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022" (Scotview, 2023)

50 mins; October 16, 2023

Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)

36 mins; October 16, 2023

Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)

79 hours 33 mins; October 15, 2023

Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

45 mins; October 14, 2023

Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)

55 mins; October 14, 2023

Making Sense of the 2023 Spanish Election

29 mins; October 11, 2023

Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

48 mins; October 11, 2023

The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80

60 hours 25 mins; October 10, 2023

Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023)

39 mins; October 09, 2023

Books in Early Modern Europe

63 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2023

Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2023

Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

41 mins; October 05, 2023

Ole Kristian Grimnes, "Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict" (Bloombury, 2022)

101 hours 35 mins; October 04, 2023

Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

69 hours 26 mins; October 03, 2023

Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

35 mins; October 02, 2023

Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

96 hours 11 mins; October 01, 2023

Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2019)

85 hours 16 mins; September 30, 2023

Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

31 mins; September 30, 2023

Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

65 hours 25 mins; September 27, 2023

Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)

52 mins; September 27, 2023

Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

48 mins; September 27, 2023

Damani Partridge, "Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin" (U California Press, 2022)

43 mins; September 24, 2023

Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)

56 mins; September 23, 2023

Jamie Bronstein, "The Happiness of the British Working Class" (Stanford UP, 2023)

38 mins; September 21, 2023

Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)

61 hours 24 mins; September 18, 2023

Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; September 18, 2023

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)

56 mins; September 18, 2023

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)

69 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2023

Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)

62 hours 39 mins; September 17, 2023

John O'Donovan, "An Introduction to the Irish Civil War" (Mercier Press, 2022)

108 hours 21 mins; September 16, 2023

Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)

42 mins; September 15, 2023

Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; September 14, 2023

Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

61 hours 8 mins; September 14, 2023

Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

69 hours 19 mins; September 13, 2023

Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)

30 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

46 mins; September 11, 2023

Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

21 mins; September 09, 2023

Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)

37 mins; September 08, 2023

Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)

53 mins; September 07, 2023

Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

82 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2023

Andrew Hesketh, "Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story" (U of Wales Press, 2023)

36 mins; September 04, 2023

The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis

44 mins; September 03, 2023

Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

63 hours 19 mins; September 03, 2023

Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)

24 mins; September 02, 2023

Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

96 hours 49 mins; September 01, 2023

Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton, "Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages" (Brill, 2022)

61 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2023

Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 31, 2023

Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; August 31, 2023

Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

42 mins; August 30, 2023

Wolf Gruner, "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany" (Yale UP, 2023)

85 hours 38 mins; August 29, 2023

Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)

58 mins; August 27, 2023

Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

25 mins; August 26, 2023

Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)

91 hours 47 mins; August 25, 2023

Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)

57 mins; August 23, 2023

Adam Jasienski, "Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World" (Penn State UP, 2023)

50 mins; August 21, 2023

Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)

49 mins; August 20, 2023

David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)

75 hours 7 mins; August 20, 2023

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