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A joint platform for ideas in context.
Beyond the Text is created by Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson. We bring intellectual history and philosophy into accessible public conversation through long-form podcast discussions, scholarly essays and an archive of participatory seminars.
What we do
Podcast
Free-form conversations, interviews and close engagement with major texts, thinkers and historical debates.
Articles
Short but scholarly writing that introduces important arguments and traditions in their historical settings.
Seminar archive
The completed Liberty, Heritage and Revolution series connected guided reading and discussion with the historical settings around major texts.
Meet the hosts
Samuel Woodall
Samuel is a PhD candidate in Intellectual History at the University of Buckingham’s Humanities Research Institute, where he also teaches eighteenth-century British history, science and religion in the Enlightenment, and nineteenth-century political thought.
His doctoral research examines political and religious faction in early eighteenth-century Britain through Paul de Rapin de Thoyras, John “Estimate” Brown and Josiah Tucker. Beyond the Text developed from his original Intellectual Historian podcast and now brings that research-led approach into collaboration with Jack.
Jack Thomson
Jack completed his MA by Research in Philosophy at the University of Buckingham. His work specialises in modern philosophy after Kant, with a particular interest in phenomenology.
He coordinates the Thomas More Foundation, a developing collaboration of educators and academics working to provide stronger intellectual and character formation for sixth-form students and educators. He also coordinates a phenomenology reading group with Fr Hugh Mackenzie of the Diocese of Westminster.
Read Jack’s continuing work in philosophy, phenomenology and intellectual formation at Person and Act →
Join the conversation
Beyond the Text welcomes curious listeners and readers, as well as suggestions for future guests, texts and themes. Continue the conversation in the History of Ideas Reading Club, or join the shared Intellectual Historian newsletter for new episodes, essays and announcements.
