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I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. George Boss.

He is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

And today we're going to talk about his book, Marx and the Politics of Need.

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If you just Google Dr. George Bass, it comes up pretty quickly in the solutions.

And you can see stuff there.

I try and take some of this stuff forward in the Leverhulme Project, talking about the role of needs talk in more kind of contemporary politics.

And the book is also open access, I should note.

Um, and the reason this has all been very much in my mind is because of, uh, a recent publication of [audience cheering] Thank you very much.

One of the, the, the things then to come back to kind of maybe less obviously selling commercial end of this, um, work on this anthology began with a grant from the Leverhulme Trust in twenty thirteen, so that's thirteen years of work.

It is massively collaborative.

I am in no way the main contributor to this.

I spent three years with Tabitha Stanmore, who you also know, I know on this podcast.

And we had a big grant from the Leverhulme Trust.

And we had three years to work on various archives and see what we could find about all of these people.

the variety of documents was amazing and some were very very scattered you know you've got like manor records you've got wills you've got deeds you've got church records you've got various kinds of court in various different localities um a lot of it is all over the place but in some cases yes you've got a chest of documents that was kept in an individual church say or a ledger of church business um quite a lot of in scotland i was delighted to discover when writing the book is online So Scotland's People is a wonderful website, and there's quite a lot of stuff you can now find on there.

Okay, so he wasn't a staff member at Cambridge.

He held a postdoc position funded by the Leverhulme Trust to study the biological basis of moral norms.

And he was listed as a college research associate at Cambridge.

He wasn't paid by Cambridge.

Music would continue to be a vital element of his life and his poetic production.

Dr Adam Bridgen is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Durham, researching working-class poets of the Industrial Revolution.

He made a close study of the work of John Nicholson during a Brotherton Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

we often forget when we're just, as literary scholars, just reading texts, that the people who composed them were living in sonic worlds that were replete with all sorts of musical entertainment and song form.

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I had help.

I was lucky enough to be given a grant by the Leverhulme Trust, which will now obviously be my last grant in academia.

I'll not get one-

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