Stories from the Space Between
Stories from the Space Between is a podcast from the Space Between Society, a group of researchers interested in the study of the "space between" the two World Wars as well as the wars themselves. Join us for stories about the writers, artists, filmmakers, fads, fashions, technologies, economics, and politics of this radical period.
Episodes
8 episodes
Modernism and Technology
Turn on and tune in because this episode is about modernism and technology. Alex Goody and Ian Whittington discuss their recently published Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Alex Goody is ...
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56:04
Surrealist Sabotage
What is Surrealist Sabotage and what does it have in common with "quiet quitting" and today's gig economy? This episode considers these questions as we look into the political aspects of surrealism with Abigail Susik, Associate Professor of Art...
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1:02:03
Archaeology
Dig into our summer session episode on archaeology in the interwar period with Dr. Helene Maloigne, an archaeologist and historian at University College London. Our talk centers on the work of Leonard Woolley and includes discussion of T.E. Law...
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1:02:00
Airmindedness
Take off for a discussion of “airmindedness” with contributors to Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain (Palgrave 2020). What did it mean to be “airminded” in interwar Britain? How did airmindedness encapsulate the...
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49:37
Interwar Appliances
What can refrigerators, vacuums, stoves, and other appliances tell us about class, labor, race, and gender in the 1920s and '30s and beyond? Apparently quite a bit, as Rachele Dini discusses in this episode. Rachele is Senior Lecturer in Englis...
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1:01:28
Poland
This episode is about representations of Poland in interwar British literature. Juliette Bretan, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, discusses the Polish landscape, Polish characters, and Polishness, as well as the use of Poland to ...
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43:37
The Psychographic Turn
In this episode Megan Faragher talks about her new book, Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature: The Psychographic Turn (Oxford University Press, 2021). She shares stories about what she calls "pollmindednes...
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53:40
Gwen Raverat and Interwar Wood Engraving
In this premier episode Kristin Bluemel tells the story of artist Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) and other women wood engravers whose work contributed to an engraving revival in 1930s England. Kristin Bluemel is Professor of English and the Wayne D. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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