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Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
42 mins; May 08, 2025
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
48 mins; May 04, 2025
Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57: Mid-Century Crisis" (Routledge, 2019)
35 mins; May 03, 2025
Jeremy Black, "Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714-1727" (Routledge, 2016)
40 mins; May 02, 2025
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
56 mins; May 01, 2025
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; April 30, 2025
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
48 mins; April 29, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
81 hours 22 mins; April 28, 2025
Tim Grady, "Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2025)
54 mins; April 27, 2025
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
56 mins; April 24, 2025
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
72 hours 1 min; April 23, 2025
Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
65 hours 30 mins; April 20, 2025
Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)
58 mins; April 16, 2025
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
46 mins; April 15, 2025
Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)
90 hours 21 mins; April 15, 2025
Forest Issac Jones, "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972" (First Hill Books, 2025)
26 mins; April 10, 2025
Margaret Urwin, "A State in Denial: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries" (Mercier Press, 2016)
61 hours 19 mins; April 09, 2025
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; April 08, 2025
SeĂĄn Creagh, "Republican Solipsist: The Life and Times of Joseph Mcgarrity, 1874-1940" (Peter Lang, 2025)
40 mins; April 05, 2025
Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
59 mins; April 05, 2025
Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
71 hours 10 mins; March 31, 2025
Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
40 mins; March 29, 2025
David Burke, "Kitson's Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland" (Mercier Press, 2021)
105 hours 55 mins; March 28, 2025
Kiran Mehta, "To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
70 hours 46 mins; March 27, 2025
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
35 mins; March 26, 2025
Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
111 hours 27 mins; March 25, 2025
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Cars, Race and Class with Yunis Alam
57 mins; March 23, 2025
Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
70 hours 12 mins; March 22, 2025
Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)
41 mins; March 21, 2025
Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
43 mins; March 20, 2025
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
69 hours 31 mins; March 19, 2025
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
32 mins; March 18, 2025
Sally Coulthard, "A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects" (HarperCollins UK, 2024)
31 mins; March 17, 2025
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 2 mins; March 15, 2025
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 14, 2025
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 13, 2025
Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 12, 2025
Gregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
34 mins; March 11, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
Madalina Armie and Veronica Membrive, "Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
68 hours 59 mins; March 09, 2025
Janam Mukherjee, "Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2015)
60 hours 46 mins; March 06, 2025
Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)
60 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2025
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
32 mins; March 03, 2025
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
33 mins; March 03, 2025
Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
42 mins; March 02, 2025
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
53 mins; March 01, 2025
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
87 hours 49 mins; February 28, 2025
David R. Saunders, "Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965" (Cornell UP, 2024)
66 hours 59 mins; February 25, 2025
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
54 mins; February 23, 2025
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
63 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2025
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
57 mins; February 22, 2025
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
49 mins; February 21, 2025
Lindsay O'Neill, "The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
49 mins; February 21, 2025
Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
56 mins; February 19, 2025
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
84 hours 52 mins; February 17, 2025
Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
54 mins; February 16, 2025
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, "Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947-2022" (Leuven UP, 2024)
69 hours 12 mins; February 16, 2025
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
26 mins; February 16, 2025
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
48 mins; February 15, 2025
Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 4 mins; February 14, 2025
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
68 hours 44 mins; February 13, 2025
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
40 mins; February 12, 2025
Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
36 mins; February 10, 2025
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
50 mins; February 09, 2025
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
112 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2025
Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 06, 2025
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
36 mins; February 04, 2025
Whitney Dirks, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
61 hours 16 mins; February 03, 2025
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
32 mins; February 02, 2025
Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
50 mins; January 30, 2025
A. G. Hopkins, "Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931" (Princeton UP, 2024)
54 mins; January 30, 2025
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 39 mins; January 29, 2025
Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 52 mins; January 28, 2025
Benjamin Carter Hett, "The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War" (Henry Holt, 2020)
84 hours 11 mins; January 28, 2025
Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
39 mins; January 24, 2025
"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
54 mins; January 23, 2025
Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)
57 mins; January 22, 2025
Michelle D. Brock, "Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town" (Manchester UP, 2024)
63 hours 36 mins; January 22, 2025
April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; January 21, 2025
Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 5 mins; January 20, 2025
Steven King, "Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present" (McGill Queen's UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 19, 2025
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 53 mins; January 17, 2025
Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp" (U Toronto Press, 2015)
77 hours 29 mins; January 16, 2025
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 14, 2025
Ciaran O'Neill, "Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
29 mins; January 12, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2025
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
47 mins; January 09, 2025
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; January 07, 2025
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; January 06, 2025
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 2 mins; January 03, 2025
Oskar Jensen, "Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London" (The Experiment, 2024)
88 hours 13 mins; December 31, 2024
Caitlin Davies, "Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks" (The History Press, 2021)
63 hours 26 mins; December 30, 2024
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 29, 2024
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
77 hours 53 mins; December 29, 2024
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
39 mins; December 28, 2024
Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
67 hours 43 mins; December 27, 2024
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)
46 mins; December 27, 2024
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
47 mins; December 27, 2024
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