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When Shorts Were Short S3 E22 - ALISTAIR ROBERTSON WBA and Wolves
When Shorts Were Short - April 19, 2024 19:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, to 1992, when short shorts were all but fi...
Episode 296: The Virgin Queen
Western Civ - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 129 ratingsElizabeth is often known in history books as the "Virgin Queen". As we will see in this episode, to remain unwed was a conscious choice she cultivated from the very beginning of her reign. It gave her independence. And it allowed her to chart England's religious course, very much a compromise, wi...
Black & Bold: Core Values ain't just for White folks!
Espresso Talk Today - April 19, 2024 08:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin us in a thought-provoking episode as we delve into the unique journey of identifying and living by core values as Black folks. Racism, a pervasive force, often acts as a formidable obstacle, diverting our focus and energy from our guiding principles. Through powerful anecdotes and insightfu...
Sphinx
Myth Monsters - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsApologies - I caught the flu before recording this episode, so I sound a little rough! in this week's episode, we're heading over to Egypt and Greece for the riddling minx, the Sphinx! Which mythology is it from anyway? Why is the Great Sphinx male? Find out in this episode! Support the show ...
Philias: Furry Isn't a Fetish (Most of the Time)
Taboo Science - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe furry fandom gets a bad rap. But on this episode, we're digging beneath the stereotypes to uncover the truth about this misunderstood community. We'll chat with furry researcher Dr. Courtney Plante along with Riley Black, a science writer and a furry herself, to explore what the furry cultur...
Episode 177: Everything Is Wrong With The Napoleon Movie. With Rory Butcher
Well That Aged Well - April 18, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We discuss what went wrong with the most recent Ridley Scott Movie "Napoleon" movie. How innacurrate is it? What went wrong? And how could it have been made better? The views discussed in this episode are our own. Find Rory Butcher on Twitter/X here: @RMB_History Support this sho...
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAn intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions. Knowing Orwell's life and reading Orwell's works produces just as many questions as it a...
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsBefore Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the...
Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsJohnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a profess...
Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Liz Tregenza seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was use...
Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThor Rydin joins to talk about his new book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872- 1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Amsterdam UP, 2023). This book offers a new perspective on the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), who remains one of the most famous European ...
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSt. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland. The stories of Brigid's life and ...
Story Time: The Mirror Maiden by Lafcadio Hearn (Ep. 146)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language - April 17, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsToday I'll read you Lafcadio Hearn's short story: The Mirror Maiden. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] Uncanny Japan is author Thersa Matsuura. Check out her books includin...
Experience the Parks and Historic Sites of Natchitoches, Louisiana
Big Blend Radio: Way Back When - April 16, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutesWith National Park Week (April 20-28), Earth Day (April 22), Arbor Day (April 27), Junior Ranger Day (April 27), and Kids to Parks Day (May 18) coming up, this episode of Big Blend Radio's 3rd Tuesday "Go to Natchitoches" show is all the various parks, historic sites and trails, and events you c...
Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel, "A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes" (Rizoli, 2023)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsFor every lover of food culture, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (Rizzoli, 2023) by Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel presents scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in culinary history. In ten...
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsGraphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings hav...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? In How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year History (Reaktion, 2024) Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Dr. ...
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipe...
Poetry in Oklahoma City (featuring Red Dirt Poetry)
Metropolitan Library System Podcast - April 15, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsApril is poetry month, so on this month's podcast we're joined by poets Durell Carter and Yoko Hill to talk about their organization, Red Dirt Poetry, and the wealth of talented poets currently writing in Oklahoma.
Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. Arctic Circles and Imperial...
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsOver thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American na...
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThe stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily on our historical and contemporary fellow travelers. Yet we may not appreciate how our work also extends beyond us into our physical and societal e...
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these evolutionist turns of thought, and in what ways have they endured in present-day music research? ...
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsPolitical Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. But this work is much more than an exploration of some of the writings by African American thinkers, it importantly tells the story of America. The Da...
Ada Lovelace | 1: Born of Scandal
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 15, 2024 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhen one of the smartest women in England, Anne Isabella Milbanke, fell in love with the most scandalous, and handsome, creative genius of his time, Lord Byron, the fallout was nothing less than a national scandal. Their young daughter, Ada, was caught in the crossfire. Ada spent her early child...
Mountain State on Tap: Exploring WV Beer Fest
West Virginia Talk - April 15, 2024 03:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin James and Jerry on our latest episode of West Virginia Talk as we speak to Jamie Summerlin. Jamie is a Gulf War veteran who served in the Marine Corp for 6 years. He is the author of the book "Freedom Run" and is currently the CEO of Guidon Creative who is the driving force behind this ne...
Ep 295: Angus Dunican - World's Worst Ventriloquist
Worst Foot Forward - April 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDONATE TO THE HARDEST GEEZER! Try and see our lips move on this week's episode as Angus Dunican returns to talk to us about the World's Worst Ventriloquist. From puppets on the beat to those who faced down the Nazis and lived to tell the tale, there's something for everyone in here. Assuming ...
Experience Historic Georgetown, South Carolina
Big Blend Radio: Way Back When - April 14, 2024 23:00 - 39 minutesOn this episode of Big Blend Radio's JO GOES EVERYWHERE! Podcast with travel writer and photographer Jo Clark, we hear all about beautiful and historic Georgetown, South Carolina. Named the Best Coastal Small Town by USA Today in 2018, Georgetown is rich in history, nature and outdoor adventures...
The Theologians
Undeceptions with John Dickson - April 14, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 253 ratingsTheology: It's a dry term that conjures images of old academics writing dusty books that will never be read. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. The study of theology is the study of who we are as humans, and how we can make sense of both God and the complexities of the ...
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAdam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the rich and ribald world of kibyōshi, a short-lived (1778-1807) subgenre of books combining text and illustration on the same page, much like comic bo...
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