# Hugh Wood
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hugh wood (27 June 1932 – 14 August 2021) was a British composer.
== Biography ==
Wood was born in Parbold, Lancashire and grew up in a musical family; while still a teenager, he was encouraged by the composer Alan Bush. He says that his "earliest enthusiasm was Bach...
Prof. Manfred Berg, 'The Right to Bear Arms: Guns, Mass Shootings, and the Militia Movement'
Prof. Manfred Berg, Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg, joins Megan Renoir and Hugh Wood to discuss the 2nd Amendment, mass shootings, the militia movement, and the possibility of another American civil war.
Prof. Arianne Sedef Urus, 'Common Shores: Property and Resource Access in the Eighteenth Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries'
Arianne Sedef Urus, Assistant Professor of Early American History and Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, joins Megan Renoir and Hugh Wood to discuss cod fisheries, early modern empires, and Indigenous expropriation through the commons.
Prof. Steven Hahn, 'Illiberal America: A History'
Prof. Steven Hahn, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, joins Fergus Seldson Games and Hugh Wood to talk about his new work, Illiberal America: A History. Offered as a corrective to Louis Hartz's classic, The Liberal Tradition in America, Prof. Hahn discusses westward expansion, eugenics, and a deep s…
Dr. Lila Chambers, 'Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1580-1737'
Dr. Lila Chambers, research fellow at Gonville and Cauis College, Cambridge, joins Shea Hendry and Hugh Wood to discuss her upcoming book, Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic,1580-1737. Lila's research traces the intertwined development of political economy, dipl…
Dr. Tom Smith, 'Word Across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories'
This week on the podcast, Dr. Tom Smith, Affiliated Lecturer and Keasbey Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, examines how Protestant missionaries situated themselves within local Pacific contexts, and American empire more generally. You can read more of Smith's w…
Dr. Shane Hamilton, 'The Persistence of Glyphosate: Monsanto’s Strategic Maintenance of Roundup, the World’s Most Enduring Herbicide Technology'
This week, PhD candidates Fergus and Caroline are joined by Shane Hamilton, Reader in Strategy, Management and Society at the University of York. They discuss his recent paper, “The Persistence of Glyphosate: Monsanto’s Strategic Maintenance of Roundup, the World’s Most Enduring Herbicide Technolog…
Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, 'From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S'
This week on the podcast, PhD candidates Hugh Wood and Megan Renoir sit down with Sophie FitzMaurice, Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. Sophie discusses her paper, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole…
Episode 354. Get to Know April Cantelo
Only recently have I become fully aware of the exceptional voice and artistry of the late April Cantelo (02 April 1928 -16 July 2024). When she died last summer, I began more fully exploring her recorded output and to my surprise and delight, I found myself ranking her among the very finest 20th ce…
Dr. Kathleen Belew, ‘Thoughts and Prayers: America in the Age of Mass Violence’
“In 2024…the number of children and teachers killed in school shootings surpassed not only military, but active police duty deaths. So our entire carceral and military apparatus had fewer fatalities than children and teachers in schools. And we’ve gone up since then. We’re on a steady inflection up…
Prof. David Farber, 'The War on Drugs'
“What makes one drug or another useful to politicians?”
David Farber asks.
At the seminar, Farber presented new work on the late twentieth-century “war on drugs” in the United States—what it was, how it functioned, and whether it has proven politically durable.
Focusing on the legislative process…
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