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Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)

42 mins; April 01, 2026

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)

59 mins; March 31, 2026

Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

58 mins; March 30, 2026

Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)

35 mins; March 28, 2026

John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

38 mins; March 27, 2026

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, "Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections" (Neptune Publications, 2023)

33 mins; March 27, 2026

Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

63 hours 33 mins; March 25, 2026

Alan McDougall, "Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

65 hours 41 mins; March 24, 2026

Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)

44 mins; March 23, 2026

David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

76 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026

Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)

57 mins; March 22, 2026

Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)

60 hours 4 mins; March 18, 2026

Alistair Moffat, "Edinburgh: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)

42 mins; March 17, 2026

Christopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2025)

70 hours 45 mins; March 17, 2026

E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)

24 mins; March 15, 2026

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

44 mins; March 14, 2026

Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

74 hours 49 mins; March 14, 2026

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

41 mins; March 12, 2026

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

51 mins; March 11, 2026

Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

53 mins; March 11, 2026

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 07, 2026

Lucy Lavers et al.," Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain" (Penguin, 2025)

59 mins; March 06, 2026

Eleanor Gordon et al., "Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939" (Oxford UP, 2025)

64 hours 16 mins; March 05, 2026

The Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

59 mins; March 05, 2026

Richard Vinen, "The Last Titans: How Churchill and De Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

105 hours 49 mins; March 04, 2026

Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

47 mins; March 04, 2026

Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2018)

59 mins; March 01, 2026

Leah Astbury, "Making Babies in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

56 mins; February 26, 2026

Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)

56 mins; February 22, 2026

Ray Yep, "Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

63 hours 51 mins; February 20, 2026

Sara Pennell & Jon Stobart, "Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

58 mins; February 17, 2026

Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

43 mins; February 14, 2026

Bridget Salmon and Andrew Godley, "The Making of the Modern Supermarket: Self-Service Adoption in British Food Retailing, 1950-1975" (Oxford UP, 2025)

61 hours 11 mins; February 12, 2026

Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

39 mins; February 11, 2026

Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, genre, et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970)" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024)

57 mins; February 11, 2026

Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)

54 mins; February 11, 2026

Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)

57 mins; February 10, 2026

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 35 mins; February 07, 2026

Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)

55 mins; February 06, 2026

Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)

63 hours 48 mins; February 05, 2026

David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

108 hours 47 mins; February 03, 2026

Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

62 hours 12 mins; January 30, 2026

Olivia Weisser, "The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

51 mins; January 28, 2026

Jeremy Black, "Britain's Imperial Histories (St. Augustine's Press, 2025)

27 mins; January 28, 2026

Iain Jackson et. al., "Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

40 mins; January 28, 2026

Karin Wulf, "Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 27, 2026

Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)

62 hours 7 mins; January 26, 2026

Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

46 mins; January 25, 2026

Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

44 mins; January 20, 2026

Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

85 hours 30 mins; January 19, 2026

Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)

57 mins; January 17, 2026

Reena Goldthree, "Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2025)

52 mins; January 16, 2026

Zoë McGee, "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel" (Manchester UP, 2025)

63 hours 57 mins; January 15, 2026

Sam Fullerton, "Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England" (Manchester UP, 2026)

53 mins; January 15, 2026

John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)

95 hours 17 mins; January 09, 2026

Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)

59 mins; January 08, 2026

Jessica Kelly and Neal Shasore, "Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

44 mins; January 07, 2026

Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

51 mins; January 05, 2026

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

54 mins; January 04, 2026

D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

46 mins; January 03, 2026

J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

30 mins; January 02, 2026

Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)

37 mins; January 01, 2026

Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)

49 mins; December 30, 2025

Alastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

57 mins; December 27, 2025

Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)

29 mins; December 26, 2025

Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, "Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910" (The History Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 23, 2025

Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

50 mins; December 23, 2025

Patrick C. Fleming, "Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)

37 mins; December 23, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.11: Refugees and Sanctuary, with Rosie Tapsfield, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan

43 mins; December 22, 2025

Hilary Davidson, "A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins" (Yale UP 2025)

57 mins; December 22, 2025

Judith Jesch, "The Saga of the Earls of Orkney" (Birlinn, 2025)

49 mins; December 21, 2025

Arthur Bahr, "Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

42 mins; December 20, 2025

Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

52 mins; December 20, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.10: Countering Islamophobia with the Runnymede Trust, with Shabna Begum, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat Daas

42 mins; December 19, 2025

Thomas Gidney, "An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

62 hours 25 mins; December 18, 2025

Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025

Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)

29 mins; December 14, 2025

Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

70 hours 24 mins; December 13, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.9: “Everyday Islamophobia,” with Peter Hopkins, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat Daas

42 mins; December 12, 2025

Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)

72 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025

Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

71 hours 37 mins; December 10, 2025

Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

63 hours 38 mins; December 07, 2025

Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 06, 2025

Joseph Harley and Vicky Holmes eds., "Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

48 mins; December 03, 2025

Anna Nyburg and Charmian Brinson eds., "Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering" (Brill, 2025)

36 mins; December 02, 2025

Matt Houlbrook, "Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London" (Manchester UP, 2025)

53 mins; December 02, 2025

The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress

57 mins; December 01, 2025

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

34 mins; December 01, 2025

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

42 mins; November 29, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

44 mins; November 28, 2025

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

44 mins; November 27, 2025

Tom White, "Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster" (Repeater, 2025)

39 mins; November 23, 2025

Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

50 mins; November 20, 2025

Max Adams and Colm O’Brien, "Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field" (Birlinn, 2025)

68 hours 27 mins; November 18, 2025

13.5 - John Holmwood

65 hours 39 mins; November 14, 2025

Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

49 mins; November 12, 2025

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

67 hours 4 mins; November 11, 2025

Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)

48 mins; November 08, 2025

Georgios Giannakopoulos, "The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930" (Manchester UP, 2025)

38 mins; November 06, 2025

Jessica Campbell, "The Brontës and the Fairy Tale" (Ohio UP, 2024)

55 mins; November 01, 2025

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