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Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
51 mins; August 20, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
41 mins; August 20, 2024
Shaun S. Yates, "Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts: Understanding a Key Problem and How to Fix it" (Policy Press, 2024)
46 mins; August 17, 2024
Democracy Promotion, Progressive Realism and the Labour Government’s Policy Towards Asia
37 mins; August 16, 2024
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; August 14, 2024
Barbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)
40 mins; August 13, 2024
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
45 mins; August 12, 2024
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
46 mins; August 11, 2024
Ella Houston, "Advertising Disability" (Routledge, 2024)
43 mins; August 10, 2024
George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
90 hours 12 mins; August 10, 2024
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)
66 hours 38 mins; August 10, 2024
Paul Koudounaris, "Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion" (Thames & Hudson, 2024)
46 mins; August 09, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
54 mins; August 09, 2024
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
42 mins; August 08, 2024
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
72 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2024
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
61 hours 2 mins; August 06, 2024
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
70 hours 27 mins; August 04, 2024
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; August 03, 2024
Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
56 mins; August 03, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
53 mins; August 02, 2024
Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023)
52 mins; August 01, 2024
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
35 mins; July 30, 2024
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
73 hours 57 mins; July 30, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
52 mins; July 27, 2024
David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)
73 hours 16 mins; July 25, 2024
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
64 hours 9 mins; July 23, 2024
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 0 mins; July 23, 2024
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
70 hours 57 mins; July 22, 2024
Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; July 20, 2024
Michelle Moffat, "Scottish Society in the Second World War: Tradition, Tension, Transformation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
59 mins; July 18, 2024
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
53 mins; July 17, 2024
Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 56 mins; July 16, 2024
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019)
143 hours 7 mins; July 14, 2024
Pamela Hutchinson, "The Red Shoes" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
51 mins; July 14, 2024
Matt Houlbrook et al., "Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present" (Manchester UP, 2024)
44 mins; July 13, 2024
Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; July 13, 2024
James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
56 mins; July 12, 2024
Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
100 hours 0 mins; July 12, 2024
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; July 09, 2024
Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; July 09, 2024
Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
33 mins; July 07, 2024
Kathryn Hughes, "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
59 mins; July 07, 2024
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
55 mins; July 06, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
24 mins; July 05, 2024
Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)
64 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
53 mins; June 30, 2024
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2024
Shahmima Akhtar, "Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970" (Manchester UP, 2024)
18 mins; June 30, 2024
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; June 28, 2024
Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)
62 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2024
Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 25 mins; June 26, 2024
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 24, 2024
Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
36 mins; June 23, 2024
M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 21, 2024
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; June 17, 2024
Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
44 mins; June 16, 2024
Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023)
27 mins; June 15, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; June 12, 2024
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
37 mins; June 11, 2024
Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)
53 mins; June 08, 2024
Alistair Moffat, "The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)
51 mins; June 07, 2024
Thomas Larkin, "The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society" (Columbia UP, 2024)
32 mins; June 06, 2024
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
45 mins; June 06, 2024
Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; June 05, 2024
Vivien Marsh, "Seeking Truth in International TV News: China, CGTN, and the BBC" (Routledge, 2023)
60 hours 55 mins; June 04, 2024
Jonathan A. Seitz, "Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
62 hours 29 mins; June 03, 2024
Linda Hopkins and Steven Kuchuck, eds., "Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972" (Karnac, 2022)
59 mins; June 03, 2024
Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
69 hours 46 mins; June 03, 2024
Daniel Rachel, "Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Akashic Books, 2024)
54 mins; June 01, 2024
Bodie A. Ashton, "The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
59 mins; May 28, 2024
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
52 mins; May 28, 2024
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
72 hours 18 mins; May 26, 2024
Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)
61 hours 15 mins; May 24, 2024
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
43 mins; May 23, 2024
Jeremy Black, "In Fielding's Wake" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
46 mins; May 21, 2024
Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)
32 mins; May 21, 2024
Robert Lyman, "A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma, and Britain: 1941–45" (Osprey, 2021)
100 hours 0 mins; May 21, 2024
Kate Morgan, "The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History" (Mudlark, 2024)
50 mins; May 19, 2024
James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024)
42 mins; May 19, 2024
Anna Brinkman, "Balancing Strategy: Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
55 mins; May 18, 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
53 mins; May 18, 2024
Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith, "Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women" (The History Press, 2023)
67 hours 58 mins; May 18, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2024
Karen Sullivan, "Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
42 mins; May 14, 2024
Joanne Edge, "Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death" (York Medieval Press, 2024)
67 hours 25 mins; May 11, 2024
Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman, "Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
45 mins; May 10, 2024
Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
30 mins; May 08, 2024
Kris Butler, "Drink Maps in Victorian Britain" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
28 mins; May 08, 2024
Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
53 mins; May 03, 2024
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 01, 2024
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 30, 2024
George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)
67 hours 33 mins; April 29, 2024
Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021)
52 mins; April 28, 2024
Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
51 mins; April 28, 2024
Kathryn Telling, "The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige" (Policy Press, 2023)
42 mins; April 27, 2024
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
61 hours 36 mins; April 27, 2024
Nicholas Popper, "The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; April 26, 2024
Mukund Padmanabhan, "The Great Flap of 1942: How the Raj Panicked over a Japanese Non-invasion (Vintage Books, 2024)
31 mins; April 25, 2024
Crawford Gribben, "J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; April 24, 2024
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