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James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; September 06, 2023

Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

82 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2023

Andrew Hesketh, "Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story" (U of Wales Press, 2023)

36 mins; September 04, 2023

The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis

44 mins; September 03, 2023

Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

63 hours 19 mins; September 03, 2023

Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)

24 mins; September 02, 2023

Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

96 hours 49 mins; September 01, 2023

Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; August 31, 2023

Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

25 mins; August 26, 2023

Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)

91 hours 47 mins; August 25, 2023

Samrat Choudhury, "Northeast India: A Political History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

35 mins; August 24, 2023

Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)

57 mins; August 23, 2023

Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

64 hours 52 mins; August 22, 2023

Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

44 mins; August 20, 2023

Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)

49 mins; August 20, 2023

Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)

70 hours 26 mins; August 20, 2023

Conor Lucey, "House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life" (Four Courts Press, 2022)

33 mins; August 19, 2023

Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)

64 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2023

Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)

45 mins; August 17, 2023

Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)

44 mins; August 15, 2023

Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)

50 mins; August 15, 2023

Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

22 mins; August 14, 2023

Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)

52 mins; August 13, 2023

Phillip Reid, "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America" (Boydell Press, 2023)

36 mins; August 10, 2023

Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)

53 mins; August 10, 2023

Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)

55 mins; August 09, 2023

Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)

76 hours 34 mins; August 08, 2023

Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 07, 2023

Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

56 mins; August 06, 2023

Andy Cowan, "B-Side: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017" (Headpress, 2023)

49 mins; August 04, 2023

Share and Share Alike: Researching Sibling Relationships in Eighteenth-Century England

81 hours 52 mins; August 03, 2023

James B. Conroy, "The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

38 mins; August 02, 2023

D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

46 mins; August 01, 2023

Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)

43 mins; July 31, 2023

Diya Gupta, "India in the Second World War: An Emotional History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 31, 2023

Finola O'Kane, "Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

57 mins; July 30, 2023

Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

57 mins; July 29, 2023

Tom Young, "Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

56 mins; July 29, 2023

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

52 mins; July 28, 2023

Lucy Moffat Kaufman, "A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2023)

75 hours 41 mins; July 27, 2023

Po-Shek Fu, "Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

117 hours 24 mins; July 26, 2023

Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)

71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023

Rich Deakin, "Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead" (Headpress, 2021)

45 mins; July 23, 2023

"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)

75 hours 1 min; July 21, 2023

Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; July 14, 2023

Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)

66 hours 36 mins; July 12, 2023

Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)

64 hours 57 mins; July 12, 2023

Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

65 hours 34 mins; July 11, 2023

Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)

53 mins; July 10, 2023

Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)

73 hours 2 mins; July 09, 2023

James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)

59 mins; July 06, 2023

Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; July 04, 2023

Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)

71 hours 30 mins; July 04, 2023

Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

47 mins; July 03, 2023

Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

50 mins; July 03, 2023

Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)

37 mins; July 01, 2023

All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity

11 mins; June 29, 2023

Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)

48 mins; June 28, 2023

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

54 mins; June 26, 2023

Svetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

53 mins; June 25, 2023

Yvette Taylor, "Working-Class Queers: Time, Place, and Politics" (Pluto Press, 2022)

41 mins; June 24, 2023

J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

30 mins; June 22, 2023

David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; June 21, 2023

The Environmental Unconscious

21 mins; June 20, 2023

Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

50 mins; June 18, 2023

Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

69 hours 2 mins; June 17, 2023

Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

54 mins; June 16, 2023

Michael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)

67 hours 44 mins; June 14, 2023

The Rhetoric of Decline

19 mins; June 13, 2023

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

61 hours 40 mins; June 12, 2023

Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

42 mins; June 09, 2023

Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)

51 mins; June 08, 2023

Celia Fisher, "The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

55 mins; June 04, 2023

Simon Ville and David Merrett, "International Business in Australia before World Shaping a Multinational Economy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

49 mins; May 31, 2023

Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 22 mins; May 30, 2023

The Future of Wales: A Discussion with Will Hayward

49 mins; May 29, 2023

Arthur Snell, "How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan (1997-2021)" (Canbury Press, 2022)

60 hours 37 mins; May 29, 2023

Strategy and Saratoga: A Conversation with Kevin Weddle

56 mins; May 27, 2023

Patrick J. Corbeil, "Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

64 hours 15 mins; May 26, 2023

Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)

57 mins; May 25, 2023

Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)

59 mins; May 25, 2023

Black Film, British Cinema II

41 mins; May 25, 2023

Alan Marshall, "Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60" (Manchester UP, 2023)

36 mins; May 24, 2023

The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain

41 mins; May 24, 2023

Robert Kershaw, "Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk" (Osprey, 2022)

54 mins; May 23, 2023

The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit: A Conversation with Ian Morris

66 hours 11 mins; May 21, 2023

Esme Cleall, "Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

30 mins; May 19, 2023

Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

70 hours 51 mins; May 19, 2023

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

57 mins; May 19, 2023

Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

76 hours 17 mins; May 10, 2023

Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; May 05, 2023

Tim Clarkson, "A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265" (John Donald, 2023)

50 mins; May 02, 2023

Robin Prior, "Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945" (Yale UP, 2022)

60 hours 8 mins; April 28, 2023

Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)

63 hours 32 mins; April 25, 2023

Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

37 mins; April 25, 2023

Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)

47 mins; April 23, 2023

Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)

81 hours 51 mins; April 22, 2023

Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)

68 hours 13 mins; April 21, 2023

Cao Yin, "Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45" (Oxford UP, 2022)

70 hours 55 mins; April 19, 2023

Nicholas Guyatt, "The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison" (Basic Books, 2022)

68 hours 13 mins; April 18, 2023

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