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Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

51 mins; December 10, 2023

Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)

65 hours 57 mins; December 08, 2023

Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

58 mins; December 07, 2023

Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

48 mins; December 06, 2023

Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)

35 mins; December 06, 2023

Christopher A. Whatley and Joanna Hambly, "Salt: Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry" (Birlinn, 2023)

59 mins; December 05, 2023

Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

42 mins; December 05, 2023

Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)

74 hours 34 mins; December 05, 2023

H. E. Sawyer, "I Am the Dark Tourist: Messenger of Remembrance" (Headpress, 2023)

54 mins; December 03, 2023

Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)

81 hours 52 mins; December 03, 2023

Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)

69 hours 25 mins; December 02, 2023

John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)

59 mins; November 30, 2023

Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

59 mins; November 29, 2023

Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)

61 hours 3 mins; November 28, 2023

Andrekos Varnava, "British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit" (Routledge, 2020)

72 hours 46 mins; November 27, 2023

G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)

59 mins; November 27, 2023

Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

63 hours 25 mins; November 25, 2023

Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)

40 mins; November 24, 2023

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

70 hours 35 mins; November 24, 2023

Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)

73 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2023

Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; November 24, 2023

Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)

45 mins; November 22, 2023

Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)

70 hours 47 mins; November 21, 2023

Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)

49 mins; November 20, 2023

Thomas Blake Earle, "The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America" (Cornell UP, 2023)

53 mins; November 19, 2023

Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

55 mins; November 18, 2023

Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

49 mins; November 16, 2023

Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

43 mins; November 15, 2023

Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)

51 mins; November 14, 2023

Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)

54 mins; November 12, 2023

Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)

55 mins; November 12, 2023

Elizabeth DeYoung, "Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

30 mins; November 11, 2023

Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)

51 mins; November 07, 2023

Rory Coulter, "Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities" (Policy Press, 2023)

50 mins; November 06, 2023

Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023)

60 hours 59 mins; November 06, 2023

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

80 hours 55 mins; November 04, 2023

Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian

65 hours 29 mins; November 03, 2023

Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)

65 hours 21 mins; October 31, 2023

Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 30, 2023

Utsa Mukherjee, "Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families" (Policy Press, 2022)

37 mins; October 29, 2023

Simone Varriale, "Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration" (Bristol UP, 2023)

38 mins; October 29, 2023

Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 27, 2023

Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)

45 mins; October 23, 2023

Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)

50 mins; October 22, 2023

Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 45 mins; October 18, 2023

Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

39 mins; October 18, 2023

Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)

42 mins; October 17, 2023

Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)

43 mins; October 17, 2023

Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall, "Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

50 mins; October 17, 2023

Onyeka Nubia, "England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

67 hours 38 mins; October 17, 2023

Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)

79 hours 33 mins; October 15, 2023

Lucy Fulford, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus" (Coronet, 2023)

52 mins; October 13, 2023

James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 13, 2023

Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

72 hours 43 mins; October 13, 2023

Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023)

39 mins; October 09, 2023

Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

72 hours 11 mins; October 07, 2023

Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

50 mins; October 07, 2023

S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)

56 mins; October 06, 2023

Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2023

Angelina Chin, "Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2023)

94 hours 31 mins; October 05, 2023

Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

41 mins; October 05, 2023

Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)

50 mins; October 05, 2023

Robert P. Watson, "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

58 mins; October 05, 2023

Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)

98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023

Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

37 mins; October 03, 2023

Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)

75 hours 2 mins; October 02, 2023

Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)

66 hours 18 mins; October 02, 2023

Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

38 mins; October 01, 2023

Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)

58 mins; September 28, 2023

Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

65 hours 25 mins; September 27, 2023

Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

48 mins; September 27, 2023

Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)

78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023

Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)

45 mins; September 24, 2023

Jamie Bronstein, "The Happiness of the British Working Class" (Stanford UP, 2023)

38 mins; September 21, 2023

David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)

35 mins; September 19, 2023

Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)

61 hours 24 mins; September 18, 2023

Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; September 18, 2023

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)

56 mins; September 18, 2023

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)

69 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2023

Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)

61 hours 12 mins; September 17, 2023

John O'Donovan, "An Introduction to the Irish Civil War" (Mercier Press, 2022)

108 hours 21 mins; September 16, 2023

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; September 16, 2023

Charlotte Lydia Riley, "Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain " (Penguin, 2023)

46 mins; September 15, 2023

Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; September 14, 2023

Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)

26 mins; September 13, 2023

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

42 mins; September 12, 2023

Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

61 hours 39 mins; September 12, 2023

Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings

62 hours 51 mins; September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

86 hours 53 mins; September 11, 2023

Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)

56 mins; September 10, 2023

Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

55 mins; September 10, 2023

Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

21 mins; September 09, 2023

L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

59 mins; September 09, 2023

Oliver Crisp and Daniel J. Hill, eds., "Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm" (Routledge, 2023)

30 mins; September 08, 2023

Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)

58 mins; September 08, 2023

Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)

53 mins; September 07, 2023

Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017)

66 hours 32 mins; September 07, 2023

Peter Foster, "What Went Wrong with Brexit? And What We Can Do about It" (Canongate, 2023)

47 mins; September 07, 2023

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