You Are Elizabeth Bennet
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
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.
What Matters in Jane Austen?
250 years after she was born, Jane Austen continues to outwit her readers, as John Mullan explains
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle
Richard Vinen tells us about his biographical study of 'the last titans'
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
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
How to Make a Monster with Surekha Davies
Surekha Davies's new book sweeps back through human history in a quest to find the monsters and tell us what they mean
Josef Mengele the Elusive Nazi
Betina Anton explains how one of the most infamous Nazis remained at large for decades after the end of the Second World War
The Day President Kennedy Didn't Die
Brad Meltzer tells us about a failed assassination attempt that very nearly altered the course of history