New Books in British Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Britain about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Britain about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-03 12:52
- last episode published
- 2025-01-03 09:00
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- 3.17 days
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- Marshall Poe
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-03 | Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity (Oxford UP, 2024) dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Oskar Jensen, "Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London" (The Experiment, 2024) London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their... |
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| 2024-12-30 | Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks (The History Press, 2021) tells the incredible story of Britain's female gangsters from the seventeenth century to the present day. Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ...... |
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| 2024-12-29 |
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024) In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories of women who brought 19th century criminals to justice, in real life and popular culture, as unacknowledged crime-fighters and feminist icons. On stage ... |
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| 2024-12-29 |
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022) The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Kaye looks at Ma... |
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| 2024-12-28 | We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 reveals the bold, at times utopian, plans British Conservatives drew up f... |
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| 2024-12-27 | John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Oxford UP, 2023). Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and ... |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024) In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reimagining of politics and the arts, of the market for culture, and of ideas about educa... |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024) After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment. Playgrounds: The Expe... |
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| 2024-12-27 | Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890—1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) by Dr. Michael Bresalier traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications... |
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