About Pax Britannica
Pax Britannica is a narrative history podcast covering the empire upon which the sun never set. Beginning with the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, Pax Britannica follows the people and events that created an empire that dominated the globe.
Hosted by a PhD candidate in British Imperial history, and based on extensive scholarship and primary sources, along with interviews with experts in their field, Pax Britannica aims to explain the rise and eventual fall of the largest empire in history. After all, how peaceful was the ‘British Peace’?
About the Host
Samuel Hume is an AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at the University of Aberdeen, studying the interwar British Empire and its transformation into the British Commonwealth of Nations.
I started podcasting in 2016 with The History of Witchcraft, a hobby to keep my interest in history alive after finishing my undergraduate. When I returned to university for an MLitt the podcast fell by the wayside, until I relaunched The History of Witchcraft in summer 2017.
After beginning my PhD I wanted to create a history podcast on the subject of my research; the British Empire. Even though it is an incredibly complicated, nevermind controversial, subject I believe that a quality history podcast is the perfect medium to cover it. Podcasting is one of the best ways to communicate academic research to the general public with nuance and depth, which is what a topic like the British Empire needs.
