Podcasts

The On War & Society podcast features interviews with the most prominent historians of war and society. Guests discuss their cutting-edge research, the challenges associated with doing history, and life ‘behind the book.’

Great Battles in History: The Battle of Hattin

Great Battles in History: The Battle of Hattin

The first four parts of an all-new episode of Professor Darryl Dee’s Great Battles in History podcast has been released. In the inaugural episode, Professor Dee examined the Battle of Thermopylae and its legacy, followed by the bloody Battle of Cannae during the...

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Great Battles in History: The Battle of Cannae

Great Battles in History: The Battle of Cannae

An all-new episode of Professor Darryl Dee's Great Battles in History podcast has been released. In the inaugural episode, Professor Dee examined the Battle of Thermopylae, its origins and its legacy, now he sets his sights on The Battle of Cannae: On August 2, 216...

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On War & Society E29: Making a Historian

On War & Society E29: Making a Historian

On this month's episode Of On War and Society, Kyle Pritchard sits down with Dr Roger Sarty to discuss the life and career of C.P. Stacey. Sarty explains how Stacey went from being a young student with no interest in research to the founding father of Canadian...

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On War & Society E27: Assault on the Winter Line

On War & Society E27: Assault on the Winter Line

The Italian Campaign during the Second World War remains a subject of controversy—whether it was “Normandy’s Long Right Flank” or a costly stalemate continues to be debated by historians to modern day. Terry Copp, director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for Military...

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On War & Society E23: Stalin’s Gulag

On War & Society E23: Stalin’s Gulag

Sometimes we forget that the field of war and society encompasses so much more than Canada. Many of the guests we've had on our show study the history of war and society in Canada, but in this episode, Wilson Bell speaks about the Soviet Gulag system during the Second...

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On War & Society E14: Rewriting the Great War

On War & Society E14: Rewriting the Great War

Since 2014, there has been an outpouring of literature on the First World War that has moved the field in exciting new directions. Over thirty books have been released by Canadian academic presses over the past almost four years, including titles on conscription,...

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On War & Society E13: Family at the Front

On War & Society E13: Family at the Front

Nearly 660,000 bags of mail were sent to Canada from soldiers in France and Belgium during the First World War. In this episode, Dr. Kristine Alexander sits down with Kyle Pritchard to discuss her research on the topic of families, children, and letter-writing during...

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On War & Society E12: A Microhistory of an Ace

On War & Society E12: A Microhistory of an Ace

Billy Bishop is one of the most recognizable names in the military history of Canada. He was Canada’s top ace during the First World War, credited with over seventy victories during his career as a pilot with Royal Flying Corps. But there were many other pilots whose...

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On War & Society E7: The Conscripted

On War & Society E7: The Conscripted

The Conscription Crisis was the central political conflict of the First World War, affecting not only the Canadian government but having an immediate impact on over 400,000 Canadians who were registered for conscription with the intention of being sent overseas....

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On War & Society E6: Dunkirk

On War & Society E6: Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk hit theatres this past summer. It was met with critical acclaim and made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. It is arguably one of the greatest war films Hollywood has ever produced and certainly gave its viewers an...

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On War & Society E3: Complicating History

On War & Society E3: Complicating History

Who is Wilfrid Laurier University’s Cleghorn Fellow in War and Society? Mary Chaktsiris dropped by the studio this month to talk about her new position, teaching in a different environment, and her research into Toronto and the Great War. Mary became the Cleghorn...

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On War & Society E1: The War Junk Historian

On War & Society E1: The War Junk Historian

Eric Story sits down with Dr. Alex Souchen, a post-doctoral fellow at the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies in Waterloo, ON, to discuss his research on munitions dumping in Canada during the 1940s. Alex helps explain the destructive...

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