The Killing Age with Clifton Crais
One of the great terrors of the Enlightenment lay in the way it justified death as the cost of progress. Clifton Crais explains his view of 'the Killing Age'
Interviews
Below you can browse our archive of interviews with leading historians. In ten or so questions we investigate their ideas, their interests and their intentions and we give them the opportunity to explain more about the context to their books.
Mad Tom's Rising with Ian Breckon
The author Ian Breckon recalls one of the most peculiar revolts in English history
Meeting the Mavericks with Nick Higham
Nick Higham tells us about his vibrant cast of British servicemen who fought to save Baku from the Turks in 1918
You Are Elizabeth Bennet with Emma Campbell Webster
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
What Matters in Jane Austen? with John Mullan
250 years after she was born, Jane Austen continues to outwit her readers, as John Mullan explains
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle with Richard Vinen
Richard Vinen tells us about his biographical study of 'the last titans'
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One with Andrew Lambert
Andrew Lambert's new book explores an inspired century of statecraft
In Search of Gertrude Stein with Francesca Wade
Francesca Wade tells us all about her new book, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic with David Rooney
Long before Earhart and Lindbergh came Jack Alcock and Ted Brown. David Rooney tells us about 'The Big Hop'
The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora with Isabelle Pelaud
Isabelle Pelaud introduces a unique literary project
Opening the Gates of Hell: Operation Barbarossa with Richard Hargreaves
Richard Hargreaves examines two of the most bloody and significant weeks in all military history
Victor Grayson, War, Trauma and Politics with Stephen May
Stephen May engages with one of the great mysteries in British political history