The Magnificent Monuments of Ancient Rome with Paul Roberts
Paul Roberts tells us all about his revealing new history of the Eternal City
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.
The Ghosts That Haunt the British Museum with Noah Angell
Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum
Plantagenet England with Caroline Burt & Richard Partington
The medieval historians Caroline Burt and Richard Partington tell us about a decisive two centuries in the English national story
The 1907 Peking to Paris Race with Kassia St Clair
Kassia St Clair on an event that 'accelerated the twentieth century'
The R101 Airship Disaster with S.C. Gwynne
The feats and follies of the airship era, on board the world’s largest flying machine
Bennelong and Phillip at Sydney Cove with Kate Fullagar
Kate Fullagar on two of Australia’s foundational figures
The Oxford English Dictionary with Sarah Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie on the personalities behind the pages