Mile End Institute Podcast

Nov 16 2022 68 ep. 39 mins 107
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Welcome to the Mile End Institute podcast. We bring together politicians, commentators, academics, students, and members of the public to discuss and debate the major challenges facing us in a fast-moving and ever-changing world. If you are interested in finding out more about what we do, and how you can get involved, please see our website and sign up to our mailing list: qmul.ac.uk/mei

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Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

Nov 16 2022 37 mins  
On 15 November 2022, ITV's Political Editor, Robert Peston, tweeted about being refused entry to a private members' club in Central London for wearing 'comfortable mid-top trainers' and sparked fierce debate about the traditions and standards of London clubs as well as their influence on public life in 2022.  In this special episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast - recorded

Britain Alone: How a decade of conflict remade the nation

Aug 11 2022 34 mins  
In the last episode of this series of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Deputy Director, Dr Karl Pike, talks to Dr Liam Stanley from the University of Sheffield about his new book, Britain Alone: How a decade of conflict remade the nation, which was published by Manchester University Press earlier this year. Beginning with the global financial crisis of 2008, Britain Alone explor

Practical Utopia: The Many Lives of Dartington Hall

Jul 27 2022 43 mins  
In this episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins talks to Dr Anna Neima about her new book, Practical Utopia: The Many Lives of Dartington Hall which was published by Cambridge University Press in April. In this fascinating conversation, Lyndsey and Anna discuss how the 1200-acre estate at Dartington Hall near Totnes in Devon was transformed into a 'social expe

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

Jul 20 2022 57 mins  
On this week's Mile End Institute Podcast, the MEI's Deputy Director, Dr Colm Murphy, is in conversation with Dr John Davis (Queens, Oxford) about his 'kaleidoscopic' new book, Waterloo Sunrise, which explores how London was transformed into a 'vibrant yet divided metropolis' during the 1960s and 1970s. They discuss how Davis's vivid and immersive book charts everything from Soho s

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Jul 06 2022 53 mins  
In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Deputy Director, Dr Karl Pike, talks to Dr Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) and Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham) about their new book, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life.  A Radio 4 Book of the Week and one of The Guardian's 50 Hottest Summer Reads, Metaphysical Animals explores how Oxford

Historicising the Refugee Crisis

Jun 22 2022 51 mins  
In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, we are marking Refugee Week 2022 (which runs from 20 to 26 June) by exploring how Britain as a state and a society has responded to refugee populations since 1945.  In this conversation, our Deputy Director, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins, is joined by Dr Anna Maguire (UCL) and Professor Becky Taylor (UEA) to examine the UK's attit

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

Jun 15 2022 32 mins  
In this episode, Professor Tim Bale welcomes Simon Kuper to the Mile End Institute Podcast to talk about his latest book, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, which was published by Profile Books this Spring. Tim and Simon discuss how the University of Oxford has produced the most prominent Conservative politicians of our time, the prestige of the Oxford Union

The Politics of Expertise

Jun 09 2022 41 mins  
In this episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, Dr Patrick Diamond talks to Dr Lise Butler (City, University of London) and Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) about the place of expertise in public life and how understandings of expertise have evolved historically.  This episode explores conceptions of medical expertise and how that exp

Neil Kinnock: Saving the Labour Party?

May 25 2022 37 mins  
In the 60th episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Director, Dr Patrick Diamond, talks to Dr Kevin Hickson (Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool) about his new edited collection, reappraising Neil Kinnock's policies, impact, and legacy, which was published by Routledge last week. Neil Kinnock: Saving the Labour Party? offers a fresh perspective

Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-1997

May 19 2022 35 mins  
In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins talks to the award-winning writer and historian, Richard King, about his new book, Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-1997, which was published by Faber earlier this year. Lyndsey and Richard are joined by Micaela Paines (a doctoral researcher at Cardiff University who specialises in working cla