Jeffery has produced the first history of the Secret Intelligence Service, written with full and unprecedented access to MI6 archives.
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Amanda Foreman
Tuesday 9th November 2010 – 7.30pm
The author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (which was made into the 2008 blockbuster The Duchess) delves into new territory: the tale of British soldiers in the American Civil War.
Michael Wood
Thursday 4th November 2010 – 8.00pm
The Story of England is an illuminating account of English history as experienced in one representative English village. Kibworth, in Leicestershire, is located at the geographical centre of England and becomes the focus of Wood’s fascinating historical survey as he traces its history from the removal of the Romans to the present day. Intensely readable [...]
Helen Castor
Friday 22nd October 2010 – 7.30pm
Helen Castor is a is a Fellow in History at Sidney Sussex College. Her new book, She-Wolves, tells the story of the seven extraordinary women who ruled England during the five hundred years between the Conquest and the end of the sixteenth century.
Keith Jeffery
Thursday 14th October 2010 – 7.30pm
Jeffery has produced the first history of the Secret Intelligence Service, written with full and unprecedented access to MI6 archives.
Simon Winchester
Tuesday 12th October 2010 – 8.00pm
Simon Winchester’s Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories is an epic account of the Atlantic Ocean and its relationship with man. From the age of exploration to the slave trade, Simon Winchester journeys around and across this vast body of water to deliver a dramatic portrait of 9,000 miles of ocean.
Michael Wood
Tuesday 12th October 2010 – 7.30pm
The Story of England explores the fascinating history of the English village over the past 15 centuries.
Adam Sisman
Friday 3rd September 2010 – 8.00pm
Adam Sisman gives us a compelling new biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper, the controversial historian who had it all but failed to produce the masterpiece that everybody expected of him. Sisman incisively explores the circumstances which led Trevor-Roper to make his infamous blunder of authenticating the forged ‘Hitler Diaries’. Sisman also intelligently considers Trevor-Roper’s feud with [...]
Simon Schama
Simon Schama’s brilliantly eclectic new book Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges impressively from his mother’s soup to Hurricane Katrina, via Barack Obama. Schama expands his repertoire with this compulsively readable and entertaining collection of diverse commentaries. One of the foremost historians of his era, Schama is a compelling speaker and should not be missed.