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Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 31, 2025
159 Glenn Patterson: You Can Choose Who You Are (JP, DC)
65 hours 10 mins; October 30, 2025
Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 28, 2025
Deana Heath, "Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 mins; October 26, 2025
Julia Fawcett, "Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
44 mins; October 25, 2025
Karl Ittmann, "Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; October 14, 2025
Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
49 mins; October 10, 2025
Zara Anishanslin, "The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 07, 2025
Virginia Woolf, "The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; October 07, 2025
Erin M.B. O'Halloran, "East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World Between the Wars" (Stanford UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 02, 2025
Matt Myers, "The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989" (Oxford UP, 2025)
73 hours 3 mins; September 30, 2025
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, "Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
62 hours 32 mins; September 27, 2025
Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
72 hours 46 mins; September 26, 2025
Fiona J. Mackenzie, "The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw" (Birlinn, 2025)
46 mins; September 25, 2025
Rosinka Chaudhuri, "India's First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire" (India Viking, 2025)
52 mins; September 25, 2025
Emily Vine, "Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 24, 2025
Katherine L. French, "Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 23, 2025
Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight" (Luath, 2025)
27 mins; September 21, 2025
Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; September 20, 2025
Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, "The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New Tellings of Half-forgotten Stories from England's 39 Historic Counties" (The History Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 18, 2025
Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India, 1860-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
69 hours 13 mins; September 12, 2025
David Welsh, "The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europes Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; September 10, 2025
Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe, "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
38 mins; September 10, 2025
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 41 mins; September 08, 2025
Peter Lamont, "Radical Thinking: How to See the Bigger Picture" (Swift Press, 2024)
43 mins; September 07, 2025
Edward Stanley et. al., "A North American Tour Journal 1824-1825: The Making of a Prime Minister" (Sutton Publishing, 2025)
39 mins; September 06, 2025
Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57" (Routledge, 2016)
53 mins; September 05, 2025
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)
62 hours 44 mins; September 04, 2025
Steven Veerapen, "Witches: A King's Obsession" (Birlin, 2025)
39 mins; September 03, 2025
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 02, 2025
Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires" (Boydell & Brewer, 2025)
58 mins; September 01, 2025
Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski, "An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death" (Hachette UK, 2025)
40 mins; August 29, 2025
Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
76 hours 49 mins; August 28, 2025
Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 30 mins; August 27, 2025
Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
64 hours 33 mins; August 27, 2025
JĂŠrĂŠmy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; August 26, 2025
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942" (NUS Press, 2019)
44 mins; August 26, 2025
Peter K. Andersson, "The Dandy: A People's History of Sartorial Splendour" (Oxford UP, 2025)
43 mins; August 25, 2025
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; August 23, 2025
Michelle P. Brown, "Bede and the Theory of Everything" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
74 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2025
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 22, 2025
Daniel Lomas, "The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
63 hours 38 mins; August 22, 2025
Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025)
46 mins; August 21, 2025
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 21, 2025
Sandra Hempel, "Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Police Force" (Hurst, 2025)
39 mins; August 15, 2025
Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025)
38 mins; August 10, 2025
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; August 09, 2025
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
78 hours 36 mins; August 06, 2025
Marcus Gibson, "The Greatest Force: How RAF Bomber Command Became the No.1 Factor in Britain’s Total, Destructive Defeat of Nazi Germany" (2025)
38 mins; August 03, 2025
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
58 mins; August 03, 2025
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
71 hours 55 mins; August 02, 2025
Hannah Charnock, "Teenage intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England, 1950-80" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 02, 2025
Camilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
33 mins; August 02, 2025
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
61 hours 54 mins; August 01, 2025
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
50 mins; July 31, 2025
Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
46 mins; July 28, 2025
Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))
89 hours 51 mins; July 28, 2025
S1.E9. Jubilee (1978)
49 mins; July 19, 2025
Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century"
40 mins; July 19, 2025
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; July 18, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
31 mins; July 16, 2025
Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
62 hours 33 mins; July 15, 2025
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; July 15, 2025
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
50 mins; July 14, 2025
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
50 mins; July 14, 2025
Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)
37 mins; July 12, 2025
Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
83 hours 27 mins; July 10, 2025
John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
36 mins; July 06, 2025
Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
55 mins; July 05, 2025
Jennifer Crane, "'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
37 mins; July 04, 2025
Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer" (Routledge, 2024)
70 hours 4 mins; July 02, 2025
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)
67 hours 0 mins; July 02, 2025
Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
45 mins; June 30, 2025
Sarah Kenny, "Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2025)
43 mins; June 29, 2025
Matthew Allen, "Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
60 hours 10 mins; June 23, 2025
Vivian Kong, "Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
67 hours 30 mins; June 22, 2025
Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 22, 2025
John Barr, "1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
61 hours 39 mins; June 21, 2025
Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 21, 2025
Emily Webber, "Mining Men: Britain's Last Kings of the Coalface" (Penguin, 2025)
32 mins; June 18, 2025
Alice Hunt, "Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
49 mins; June 18, 2025
Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; June 11, 2025
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
63 hours 52 mins; June 05, 2025
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
43 mins; June 01, 2025
The Telegraph Takeover: Power, Profit & the Press
56 mins; May 31, 2025
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
44 mins; May 30, 2025
Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
50 mins; May 25, 2025
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
61 hours 12 mins; May 24, 2025
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
72 hours 46 mins; May 23, 2025
Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
53 mins; May 22, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; May 21, 2025
Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
30 mins; May 20, 2025
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
33 mins; May 18, 2025
Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
80 hours 3 mins; May 18, 2025
Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)
61 hours 6 mins; May 17, 2025
Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 16 mins; May 16, 2025
Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025)
58 mins; May 15, 2025
Claire McNulty, "Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660" (Routledge, 2024)
36 mins; May 13, 2025
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
52 mins; May 12, 2025
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
42 mins; May 08, 2025
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