Interviews

Audio interviews and podcasts

• History Extra podcast. Entitled 'When was the best time in English history to be alive?' Released 22 December 2025.
• How to Academy podcast. Interview with Vassili Christodoulou about my new book, Mortimer's A-Zs. Released 6 November 2025.
• Interview with Jackson van Uden for his podcast, History with Jackson, about the fake death of Edward II. Released 26 April 2025.
• Gloucester History Festival special, interview with Paul Bavill for his podcast, History Rage, about the poor standards of methodology in British history. Released 17 April 2025.
• Interview with Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks for their podcast A Slice of Medieval about speed in the Middle Ages. Released 4 December 2024.
• Interview with Matthew Harffy and Steven McKay for their podcast Rock, Paper, Swords! Released 22 November 2024.
• Gloucester History Festival special, interview with Paul Bavill for his podcast, History Rage, about the fake death of Edward II. Released 13 April 2024.
• Interview with Charlie Higson for his podcast Willy, Willy Harry Stee about Henry IV of England. Released 11 August 2023.
• Interview with Charlie Higson for his podcast Willy, Willy Harry Stee about life in medieval times. Released 18 July 2023.
• Interview with Cassidy Cash of the podcast That Shakespeare Life about life in Elizabethan times. Released 26 July 2023.
• Interview with Steph Stohrer for the 'Ask the expert' part of Tudors Dynasty podcast. We chatted about the speed of information and travel in the late Middle Ages and Tudor times. Released 7 March 2023.
• Interview with Oliver Webb-Carter for the Aspects of History podcast about Medieval Horizons. Released 25 February 2023.
• Interview with Emily Briffett for the BBC Extra podcast. The subject was my new book, Medieval Horizons. Released on publication day, 23 February 2023.
• Interview with Chris Edgerly in November 2022, an amazing 2hrs 50mins in length, touching on a wide range of subjects. NB. This is also available as a video interview, broken down into sections. See the Youtube version here.
• Interview with Dr Katie Nelson for her What's Her Name women's history podcast. I chose Harriot Mellon as my key subject. Released 16 August 2022.
• Interview with Steph Stohrer for the 'Ask the expert' part of the Tudors Dynasty podcast. We chatted about the English home from about 1400 to 1700. Released February 2022.
• Interview with Matt Lewis for the Gone Medieval podcast. The subject was my forthcoming book, Medieval Horizons. Released 20 November 2021.
• Interview with Ploy Radford for her Past Matters podcast. I chose the mirror as the underrated object that I wanted people to consider in a new light. Released 18 May 2021.
• Interview with Taylor Kniphfer and Lonnie Gomes for a PennyDog podcast on Regency authors. Released 29 March 2021.
• Interview with Elinor Evans for a History Extra podcast on Regency inequality. Released 26 January 2021.
• Interview with John Hillman for the Travels through Time website. I chose the year 1825. Released 1 December 2020.
• Interview with Dan Snow about Regency Britain for his podcast, History Hit. Released 27 October 2020.
• Interview with Maggie Wang of the Oxford University History Society about The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain and some other aspects of British history
• Interview with Zachary Davis of the Ministry of Ideas about the importance of the mirror in the development of the sense of self. 16 November 2017
• Interview with Lewis Lapham of Lapham's Quarterly about my book, Millennium for 'The World in Time'. Released 24 Mau 2017
• Interview with Sarah Walker for BBC Three's Essential Classics, 1-5 May 2017
• Podcast of a short lecture on the differences and similarities beteen history and historical fiction, 18 November 2011 (part of the Novel Approaches conference at the Institute of Historical Research)
• BBC History downloads. These are freely available via Itunes: interviews about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory appear under 24 September 2008 (medieval guide), 2 October 2009 (1415), and 1 March 2012 (Elizabethan guide). Note, these are now difficult to access as they are hosted in date order on acast and only linked from the magazine's webpage for about two years. They are still available, however. Links to the two Time Traveller's Guide podcasts are below.