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On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
29 mins; December 19, 2022
Hester Barron, "The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London" (Manchester UP, 2022)
63 hours 38 mins; December 18, 2022
Efram Sera-Shriar, "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
58 mins; December 18, 2022
Stephanie Decker, "Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History: British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; December 16, 2022
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
73 hours 53 mins; December 16, 2022
Joanna Newman, "Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
66 hours 17 mins; December 12, 2022
On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
35 mins; December 08, 2022
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 08, 2022
Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
67 hours 22 mins; December 05, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III" (Robinson, 2022)
34 mins; December 04, 2022
On Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
35 mins; December 02, 2022
Huw J. Davies, "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War" (Yale UP, 2022)
73 hours 23 mins; December 01, 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
44 mins; December 01, 2022
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
78 hours 58 mins; December 01, 2022
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2022
Paul Watt, "Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London" (Policy Press, 2021)
63 hours 39 mins; November 28, 2022
On George Orwell's "1984"
41 mins; November 28, 2022
On George Eliot's "Middlemarch"
38 mins; November 25, 2022
Stephen Bourne, "Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45" (The History Press, 2020)
39 mins; November 25, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
56 mins; November 25, 2022
Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)
30 mins; November 24, 2022
Frans Camphuijsen, "Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
51 mins; November 23, 2022
Robert J. Savage, "Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990" (Oxford UP, 2022)
34 mins; November 21, 2022
What is the Future of Populism?
51 mins; November 21, 2022
Caroline Roope, "The History of the London Underground Map" (Pen and Sword Transport, 2022)
61 hours 15 mins; November 18, 2022
Deiter Reinisch, "Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 18, 2022
Gregor Gall, "The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion" (Manchester UP, 2022)
64 hours 17 mins; November 18, 2022
Louise Ashley, "Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work" (Bristol UP, 2022)
40 mins; November 17, 2022
Michael A. Hunzeker, "Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front" (Cornell UP, 2021)
34 mins; November 16, 2022
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
55 mins; November 16, 2022
Melancholy
15 mins; November 15, 2022
James Griffiths, "Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language" (Zed Books, 2021)
57 mins; November 15, 2022
On H. G. Well's "The Time Machine"
37 mins; November 15, 2022
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
51 mins; November 14, 2022
Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)
73 hours 39 mins; November 14, 2022
Charles Read, "The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
66 hours 27 mins; November 09, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
75 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
73 hours 11 mins; November 04, 2022
David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)
31 mins; November 04, 2022
David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)
31 mins; November 04, 2022
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
31 mins; November 04, 2022
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
76 hours 57 mins; November 03, 2022
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, "Schools, Space and Culinary Capital" (Routledge, 2022)
27 mins; November 03, 2022
Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
88 hours 45 mins; November 03, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
63 hours 28 mins; November 02, 2022
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
70 hours 10 mins; November 02, 2022
Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
50 mins; November 01, 2022
Timothy Murtagh, "Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
31 mins; November 01, 2022
The Future of Money Laundering: A Discussion with Oliver Bullough
62 hours 47 mins; November 01, 2022
Tom Haines-Doran, "Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways" (Manchester UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 31, 2022
Ian Morris, "Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World--A 10,000-Year History" (FSG, 2022)
62 hours 57 mins; October 31, 2022
Matthias Bernt, "The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg" (Wiley, 2022)
57 mins; October 28, 2022
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2022
Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 12 mins; October 28, 2022
On Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help"
26 mins; October 26, 2022
Saskia Warren, "British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
43 mins; October 26, 2022
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
39 mins; October 25, 2022
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
41 mins; October 25, 2022
Sara Wallace Goodman, "Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
59 mins; October 24, 2022
Eric Jay Dolin, "Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution" (Liveright, 2022)
44 mins; October 20, 2022
Jeffers Lennox, "North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 19, 2022
On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
38 mins; October 19, 2022
John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)
67 hours 49 mins; October 18, 2022
Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
40 mins; October 17, 2022
Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 17, 2022
On Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
42 mins; October 14, 2022
Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)
38 mins; October 14, 2022
On Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"
30 mins; October 13, 2022
Rita Dhamoon et al., "Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories" (UBC Press, 2019)
93 hours 8 mins; October 13, 2022
Alan Warde et al., "The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change" (Manchester UP, 2020)
67 hours 27 mins; October 12, 2022
E. Amanda McVitty, "Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture" (Boydell Press, 2020)
75 hours 38 mins; October 12, 2022
Gregory Conti, "Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
61 hours 38 mins; October 11, 2022
S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
56 mins; October 07, 2022
On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
17 mins; October 06, 2022
John Saeki, "The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked the Hills Beyond the City" (Blacksmith Books, 2021)
34 mins; October 06, 2022
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
43 mins; October 06, 2022
Emelia Quinn, "Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; October 06, 2022
Ian Macpherson McCulloch, "John Bradstreet's Raid 1758: A Riverine Operation in the French and Indian War" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
89 hours 20 mins; October 05, 2022
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
58 mins; October 05, 2022
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
32 mins; October 05, 2022
The Future of the Legitimate Opposition: A Discussion with Alexander S. Kirshner
43 mins; October 04, 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
40 mins; October 03, 2022
On Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
29 mins; October 03, 2022
Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
49 mins; October 03, 2022
NBN Classic: Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
33 mins; October 02, 2022
NBN Classic: Rachel B. Herrmann, "No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2019)
43 mins; October 01, 2022
Emily Joan Ward, "Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 19 mins; September 30, 2022
On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
25 mins; September 30, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
84 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
62 hours 58 mins; September 29, 2022
Rahul Sagar, "To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics" (Columbia UP, 2022)
44 mins; September 29, 2022
On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
32 mins; September 28, 2022
Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
38 mins; September 26, 2022
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
43 mins; September 26, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of London" (Little Brown, 2022)
47 mins; September 23, 2022
Karen O'Brein-Kop, "Phiroz Mehta: A Zoroastrian Teacher of Indian Philosophy of Religion in 1970s-80s Britain"
45 mins; September 22, 2022
John Peter DiIulio, "Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill" (Princeton UP, 2022)
97 hours 2 mins; September 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
73 hours 45 mins; September 21, 2022
Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)
69 hours 16 mins; September 20, 2022
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