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Interviews with scholars of the United Kingdom about their new books.
November 12, 2024
Women on Philosophy of Art
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. …
November 11, 2024
The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898
Dr. Conor McCabe is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast. He is the author of numerous policy and research report…
November 7, 2024
Backstage in Hong Kong
Today, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. But when John Duffus landed in Hong Kong in 1979 as the Philharmoni…
November 6, 2024
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standard…
November 5, 2024
Sick Note
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…
November 4, 2024
Experimental Histories
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Hannah Weaver examines the mediaeval prac…
November 4, 2024
Intimate Subjects
When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us…
November 4, 2024
Kingmaker
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers (Ithaka, 2024) by Sir Graham Brady provides an insider’s look at the power struggle…
November 3, 2024
A Murderous Midsummer
The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War. Beginning as an a…
November 2, 2024
Made in Manchester
Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘…
November 1, 2024
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, Reimagining t…
November 1, 2024
Gobsmacked!
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. Bu…
October 30, 2024
Prophetic Maharaja
How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? …
October 30, 2024
Poor Things
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dicken…
October 30, 2024
Hessians
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, th…
October 28, 2024
Quinine's Remains
What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of Ind…
October 25, 2024
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and White Revolutions (Springer 2024) traces the conto…
October 24, 2024
The Invention of Scarcity
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and envi…
October 17, 2024
Liquid Empire
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These…
October 15, 2024
The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Furlon…