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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- đŹđ§ English
- last modified
- 2024-11-24 15:43
- last episode published
- 2024-11-24 09:00
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- 3.22 days
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| 2024-11-24 | At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These warshipsâof enormous geopolitical import before the adve... |
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| 2024-11-24 |
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024) When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at âthe edge of the worldâ lost its permanent population after five millennia. It has long been accepted that the islandersâ failu... |
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| 2024-11-23 | Priyasha Mukhopadhyay develops the concept of the functional archive of empire, consisting of texts ranging from licenses and other bureaucratic documents to manuals and almanacs. She describes how historical readers in colonial South Asia made sense o... |
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| 2024-11-22 | Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500Â (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Leila Norako asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with ... |
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| 2024-11-22 | On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic measurement. It aimed to address a surprising questio... |
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| 2024-11-22 |
Jill Norman, "The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages" (Reaktion, 2024) The English Table: Our Food through the Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Jill Norman is a delectable journey through the culinary history of England, from ancient times to the present day. The book sheds light on the evolution of English cuisine, which essenti... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
An Interview with Dr. Ismail Patel: Social Mobility, Britishness and Islamophobia An interview with Dr. Ismail Patel on social mobility, Islamophobia and Britishness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024) In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of Shakespeare In an in... |
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| 2024-11-19 | In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews to reconstruct the overlooked world... |
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| 2024-11-17 | October, 1650, traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastleâs recent witch trials. Aloof, enigmatic Elizabeth Thompson draws him to investigate the ongoing killing of women who... |
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