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Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)

We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Katherine Harvey reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Middle Ages w... more

1 Apr 2026 • 42 min

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)

Following the Normandy landings, Rommel rushed Heeresgruppe B reserves towards the coast in order to crush the bridgehead and drive the Allied forces back into the sea. One of these armored reserves was the newly created 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitle... more

31 Mar 2026 • 59 min

Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom by Mark Pennington

This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from wit... more

30 Mar 2026 • 58 min

Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)

At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fiction than their male counterparts, yet their place in literary history remains precarious. In British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical (Johns Hopkins Univ... more

28 Mar 2026 • 35 min

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Katherine Harvey

Author of The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living (Reaktion, 2026)

Reaktion

Episode: Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)

Arthur Gullachsen

Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada

Royal Military College of Canada

Episode: Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)

Mark Pennington

Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, King's College London

King's College London / Centre for the Study of Governance and Society

Episode: Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Megan Peiser

Author of British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

Oakland University

Episode: Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)

John Kuhn

Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, author of Making Pagans

Binghamton University

Episode: John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra

Research Associate at SOAS, author of Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka in Early Photography and Collections (Neptune Publications, 2023)

SOAS, Neptune Publications

Episode: Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, "Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections" (Neptune Publications, 2023)

Satya Shikha Chakraborty

Associate Professor in History at the College of New Jersey

College of New Jersey

Episode: Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Alan McDougall

Author, Dreams and Songs To Sing, A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp

Cambridge University Press

Episode: Alan McDougall, "Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Steffan Blayney

Author of Health & Efficiency, Fatigue, the Science of Work and the Making of the Working Class Body

University of Massachusetts Press

Episode: Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)

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Host of the New Books in British Studies and other channels on the New Books Network. Engaged in academic discussions surrounding new research in British studies.

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I was very enthusiast about subscribing to this podcast, having a PhD in British History and having taught courses in English, Irish , and Scottish History for more than three decades in an American university. I remain grateful for the books/authors that are chosen.
Even so, I find the podcasts useless simply because of the speed at which they were recorded (or perhaps re-recorded). I am neither senile nor hard-of-hearing, but the podcasts are unintelligible except for scattered words or phra... more
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Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)

Q: What inspired the author to pursue this project, and how did it develop into the book?

The researcher's interest in gender and sexuality within asylum led to a PhD focusing on determining LGBTIQA+ status for asylum, which evolved into the book through supplementation with legal practitioners' perspectives and a mixed-methods framework.

John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Q: What has your archive work at the Folger taught you about how paganism circulated beyond drama?

The Folger research revealed a wide array of prose genres where pagan ideas appeared, showing that non-dramatic contexts contributed to how audiences understood paganism and its history.

John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Q: How is the book organized and what is the book's overarching method?

The work is organized around recurring stage pieces, tracing their history across the 17th century to show continuity and change, and it combines close reading with broader historical analysis to highlight cross-cultural and colonial dimensions.

John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Q: What drew you to pagans and how did that seed become a book?

Kuhn explains the origin in his dissertation and a fascination with how pagan rituals on stage echoed classical forms while intersecting with questions of empire, religion, and audience perception, leading him to broaden his focus beyond canonical texts.

Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Q: How do Foucauldian concepts of freedom and agency interact with liberal ideas of negative and positive liberty in your framework?

Freedom, in Pennington's view, is an open-ended process of self-creation within a field of cultural narratives; agency exists but is not autonomous, and liberalism should accommodate that by allowing space to resist and reconfigure norms rather than enforcing rigid identities or purely negative rights.

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