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Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

61 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2023

Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin, "World War II and the Caribbean" (U West Indies Press, 2017)

58 mins; April 17, 2023

David Edmonds, "Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality" (Princeton UP, 2023)

34 mins; April 15, 2023

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "Bloody Verrières: the I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges (Volume 2) (Casemate, 2023)

60 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2023

Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)

71 hours 15 mins; April 14, 2023

Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)

34 mins; April 12, 2023

John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)

56 mins; April 12, 2023

The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan

61 hours 21 mins; April 11, 2023

Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

52 mins; April 10, 2023

Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)

43 mins; April 08, 2023

Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

45 mins; April 07, 2023

Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)

64 hours 3 mins; April 05, 2023

Andrea Hammel, "Finding Refuge: Stories of the Men, Women and Children who fFed to Wales to Escape the Nazis" (Honno Press, 2022)

42 mins; April 04, 2023

Elizabeth Marshall, "Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

35 mins; April 02, 2023

Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

34 mins; April 01, 2023

David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)

67 hours 47 mins; March 31, 2023

Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)

61 hours 55 mins; March 27, 2023

Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)

37 mins; March 27, 2023

John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

25 mins; March 21, 2023

Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

53 mins; March 21, 2023

Andrew Phemister, "Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

35 mins; March 20, 2023

Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)

26 mins; March 19, 2023

Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

50 mins; March 19, 2023

Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)

67 hours 48 mins; March 18, 2023

Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

31 mins; March 17, 2023

Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)

67 hours 41 mins; March 16, 2023

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)

49 mins; March 16, 2023

Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)

62 hours 15 mins; March 15, 2023

Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)

54 mins; March 14, 2023

Rahul Sagar, "The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government" (Oxford UP, 2021)

68 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2023

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

56 mins; March 11, 2023

Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)

54 mins; March 11, 2023

Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

64 hours 40 mins; March 10, 2023

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

45 mins; March 10, 2023

Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)

124 hours 34 mins; March 09, 2023

Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)

65 hours 57 mins; March 08, 2023

Rotem Geva, "Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital" (Stanford UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 07, 2023

William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)

80 hours 23 mins; March 05, 2023

Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)

44 mins; March 05, 2023

Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)

32 mins; March 04, 2023

Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 16 mins; March 04, 2023

Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)

103 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2023

Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)

67 hours 33 mins; March 03, 2023

Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)

56 mins; March 03, 2023

Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

66 hours 12 mins; March 03, 2023

Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)

41 mins; March 02, 2023

Frances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)

41 mins; February 27, 2023

Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)

60 hours 15 mins; February 26, 2023

Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

81 hours 10 mins; February 25, 2023

Adrian Fraser, "The 1935 Riots in St Vincent: From Riots to Adult Suffrage" (U West Indies Press, 2016)

141 hours 9 mins; February 25, 2023

Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, "The Sounds of Spectators at Football" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

62 hours 14 mins; February 25, 2023

Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

84 hours 23 mins; February 24, 2023

Elizabeth Lhost, "Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia" (UNC Press, 2022)

56 mins; February 24, 2023

Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

86 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2023

Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

67 hours 38 mins; February 20, 2023

Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)

55 mins; February 18, 2023

Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)

55 mins; February 15, 2023

Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)

43 mins; February 15, 2023

Spencer Jones, "The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917" (Helion and Company, 2021)

90 hours 49 mins; February 14, 2023

Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)

61 hours 59 mins; February 14, 2023

M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)

50 mins; February 12, 2023

Suzanne Francis-Brown, "World War II Camps in Jamaica: Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War" (U West Indies Press, 2022)

106 hours 28 mins; February 12, 2023

The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey

33 mins; February 11, 2023

John Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)

66 hours 54 mins; February 10, 2023

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)

72 hours 36 mins; February 10, 2023

Francis M. Carroll, "America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History" (NYU Press, 2021)

34 mins; February 08, 2023

Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)

68 hours 40 mins; February 07, 2023

Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

68 hours 33 mins; February 04, 2023

Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

59 mins; February 03, 2023

Angela Hui, "Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter" (Trapeze, 2022)

44 mins; February 02, 2023

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

66 hours 28 mins; February 01, 2023

Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)

69 hours 35 mins; January 30, 2023

Corey Lee Wrenn, "Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony" (SUNY Press, 2021)

83 hours 40 mins; January 28, 2023

David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, "The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954" (UNC Press, 2023)

77 hours 18 mins; January 28, 2023

Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill. "Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

47 mins; January 27, 2023

Uther Charlton-Stevens, "Anglo-India and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

41 mins; January 26, 2023

Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

53 mins; January 21, 2023

The Future of the European Left

48 mins; January 20, 2023

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

46 mins; January 17, 2023

Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

52 mins; January 16, 2023

Richard Davenport-Hines, "Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College Oxford" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

60 hours 55 mins; January 15, 2023

Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis

57 mins; January 11, 2023

Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)

69 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2023

Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

67 hours 9 mins; January 07, 2023

On W. H. Auden

25 mins; January 05, 2023

The Bedouin and the Formation of Iraq's National Borders

58 mins; January 05, 2023

Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)

33 mins; January 02, 2023

Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)

49 mins; December 28, 2022

Garritt van Dyk, "Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

72 hours 7 mins; December 26, 2022

Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

48 mins; December 25, 2022

Justin Dolan Stover, "Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish" (U College Dublin Press, 2022)

17 mins; December 24, 2022

Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)

36 mins; December 24, 2022

Michael Sturza, "The London Revolution 1640-1643: Class Struggles in 17th Century England" (The Mad Duck Coalition, 2022)

33 mins; December 23, 2022

Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

55 mins; December 23, 2022

John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)

44 mins; December 22, 2022

Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

77 hours 24 mins; December 21, 2022

Carl Griffin, "The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, 1750-1840" (Manchester UP, 2020)

67 hours 57 mins; December 19, 2022

Jane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

59 mins; December 19, 2022

Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

62 hours 31 mins; December 19, 2022

Fearghus Roulston, "Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History" (Manchester UP, 2022)

38 mins; December 19, 2022

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