# Abigail Green

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Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism

Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all. About the book: The emancipatory promise of liberalism - and its exclusionary qualities - shaped the fate of Je…

Blood Libel

This week, we cover the immensely frightening topic of blood libel. In our longest episode yet, we cover the origins of blood libel, famous cases, a short timeline, and how blood libel may appear in the modern-day.  Trigger warning for the episode as it will contain discussions of murder, violence…

Turban confusion, Jewish heritage, Hong Kong Christian activists

The first hate crime recorded after the 9/11 attacks in the US was against an observant American Sikh man Balbir Singh Sodhi. He was murdered by a man who thought his turban meant he supported the Taliban. Now Sikhs in the US and UK are concerned that the rising profile of the Taliban in Afghanista…

Carnival of Darkness

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and broadcaster Muriel Zagha to discuss 'Nightmare Alley', an unsettling vision of delight and deceit from the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; the historian Abigail Green explores the untold stories of the women behind Europe…

To The Barricades

Abigail Green considers a panoramic account of the continent-wide outbreak of revolutions in 1848. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/revolutionary-spring-christopher-clark-book-review-abigail-green/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | The Judgment of Hunefer

This mini episode is about The Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary texts from ancient Egypt. To better understand the collection as well as the culture and mythology behind these works, I looked a little bit at the page showing the judgment of Hunefer, a high-ranking scribe and priest. I g…

E162 - Before the Codebreakers

March 2024Bletchley Park is famous as the home of World War 2 codebreaking. But what was there before the Government Code and Cypher School moved in? Who built Bletchley Park, and what remains of the pre-war country estate?In this episode, Research Historian Dr David Kenyon and Head of Content Eric…

Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Jewish Country Houses

Abigail Green (Faculty of History), Nino Strachey (National Trust), and Silvia Davoli, (Strawberry Hill House) give a presentation on their Knowledge Exchange research project on Jewish Country Houses Professor Abigail Green is Tutorial Fellow in History at Brasenose College. She works at the inter…

Germany: Germany Unified

In 1871, at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles, the king of Prussia was crowned emperor of the newly unified German empire - a quite staggering event. This is the story of Germany's journey to define itself, indeed to stamp itself, on the European map. "Everything was decided by military strength,…

EP 111 Back for More

JudgeMental Podcast – Episode 111: Back for More After a three-month hiatus, Christine and Trey are back — and the courts haven't gotten any better. In this episode, they dive back into the dysfunction plaguing Louisville's Jefferson Family Court, including major updates on cases they've been track…