This week a conversation about the British royal family with Laura Clancy, who’s a lecturer in media in the sociology department at Lancaster University. Last autumn I spoke to Laura… Read More
Laura Clancy: on running the (royal) family firm
Category: history
Craig Robertson: Cabinets of curiosities
In this programme we’re looking at what I used to think of as ‘the humble filing cabinet’ until I read Craig Robertson’s fascinating book, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History… Read More
Juliana Adelman on the beasts of Dublin
In this episode, I’m talking to Juliana Adelman, who’s assistant professor of history at Dublin City University. Juliana’s recent book, Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin,… Read More
Conversations with Publishers: Margo Irvin, Stanford University Press
In this new episode in the Conversations with Publishers series, guest is Margo Irvin, who’s an editor at Stanford University Press, where she’s been commissioning history and Jewish studies for… Read More
Jennifer Howard: Disentangling the clutter
In this episode, we delve deep into clutter with Jennifer Howard, author of a recent book entitled Clutter: An Untidy History. This book is for you if you have a… Read More
Sonia Shah on lemmings, Linnaeus, and human migration
To start 2021, an interview about one of my favourite non-fiction books of last year: The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah. Sonia is a science journalist and prizewinning author,… Read More
Paul Cartledge: Thinking like a Theban
Sometimes – and it’s the case with the subject of this programme – a book is published and you think, “I am as close to dead centre in the target… Read More
Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs (video)
Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs, but not as you know them
Exactly five hundred years ago, the Aztecs were locked in a monumental struggle for their civilization’s survival with the newly arrived Spanish conquistadors. Years later, Bernal Díaz, one of Hernando… Read More
Christopher Forth on Fat: A Cultural History
Last November, I spoke to Christopher E. Forth about his book, Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life (Reaktion Books, 2019), which he describes as a ‘study in… Read More