New Books in British Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Britain about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Britain about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-06 19:04
- last episode published
- 2025-03-06 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-06 |
Janam Mukherjee, "Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2015) The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the Bri... |
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| 2025-03-05 |
Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024) The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences (Brepols, 2024) by Dr. Simona Valeriani takes one of London’s most iconic buildings and deconstructs it to offer new insights into the society that produced it. As part of the new cultural quarter b... |
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| 2025-03-03 | Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY Press, 2024) by Dr. Waiyee Loh brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025) Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to move to a nearby nation that is similar in... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024) Caroline Dunn joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England (Cambridge UP, 2025), which examines female attendants who served queens and aristocratic women during the late medieval period. Using a unique set of prim... |
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| 2025-03-01 | Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, 300 - 1100 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex wo... |
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| 2025-02-28 |
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019) In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Britain's Pacification of Palestine (Cambridge UP, 2019), Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. ... |
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| 2025-02-25 | In Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965 (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. David R. Saunders demonstrates that the withdrawal of the British imperial state from Sabah did not resu... |
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| 2025-02-23 |
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024) The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two ... |
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| 2025-02-22 |
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023) Beowulf is the product of a profoundly religious imagination, but the significance of the poem’s Christianity has been downplayed or denied altogether. The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary (Angelico Press, 2023) is the first translatio... |
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