Author Interviews
Death to Order: A Conversation with Simon Ball
Andrew Taylor on A Schooling in Murder
Annie Elliot on Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
WW2 LATEST INTERVIEW
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Dance of the Earth: An Interview with Anna M Holmes
Anna M Holmes
The novelist discusses how her book blends theatre, history and human resilience across art, war and societal change.

Death to Order: A Conversation with Simon Ball
Simon Ball
Assassination rarely achieves its aims, the academic maintains, but it endures as a useful tool to shape behaviour the international stage.

Andrew Taylor on A Schooling in Murder
The author discusses the wartime setting, narrative choices and historical research behind his latest murder mystery.

Annie Elliot on Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
Annie Elliot
The author talks through her debut novel, how she reclaims the story of Catherine Dickens and examines her mistreatment at the hands of her husband

An Interview with Daria Santini
The author talks through her background in German literature, her inclination towards cultural history and possible biographies of 20th-century women.

AoH Book Club: James Dunford Wood on The Big Little War
The author discusses the overlooked Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941, exploring how the improvised defence of RAF Habbaniya may have had far-reaching consequences for the Second World War.

AoH Fiction Book of the Month: MJ Porter on King of Kings
The author discusses the historical inspiration, characters, and research behind King of Kings, and explores the rich, often overlooked world of 10th-century Saxon England.

‘Monarchs Actually Did Something Back Then!’: Richard Foreman Interviews Charlie Higson
The author and podcaster shares his reflections on a thought-provoking journey through a thousand years of British kings and queens that mixes personal curiosity with expert insight.

Nicholas Higham on How England Began
During a wide-ranging conversation, the historian contemplates his new study of Late Roman Britain and early Anglo-Saxon England and recent evidence and perspectives found in the period that sits uneasily between the two.

No More Napoleons: Andrew Lambert Interviewed
Andrew Lambert
In examining the 'Wellington System', the naval historian challenges the traditional view of complacent British diplomacy in Europe during the 19th century and up to WW1.
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