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  • New Podcast | HistoryExtra, “Jane Austen: Life of the Week”

    New Podcast | HistoryExtra, “Jane Austen: Life of the Week”

    Hello and happy February! This year is already shaping up to be a true Jane Austen year, and I’ve been celebrating by having a wonderful conversation with Emily Briffett at BBC HistoryExtra about the life of my favourite author/woman in history, which is out today wherever you listen to your podcasts! I hope that you read more

  • New Podcast | HistoryExtra, “Everything you wanted to know about the Grand Tour”

    New Podcast | HistoryExtra, “Everything you wanted to know about the Grand Tour”

    Giovanni Paolo Panini, Modern Rome, 1757. Met Museum. I am so excited to share that the latest BBC HistoryExtra podcast had me answering lots of different questions about, and sharing highly entertaining stories from, the Grand Tour. It’s a topic I’m fascinated by, so I am so grateful to have been a part of the read more

  • Launching in January 2024…

    Launching in January 2024…

    Image by Thomas Rowlandson, “Plate 15: From World in Miniature”, 1816, Met Museum. It is a truth universally acknowledged that although I am an historian of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, I can’t help that I find the Regency period perhaps the most interesting of all – it is hard not to, when dramas, read more

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