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Helen Castor talks about the challenges of writing narrative history based on inevitably fragmented medieval sources.
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In the second of our History Today Book Club podcasts, Helen Castor, discusses Matilda (1102-67) and the claim made by some historians that she was England’s first true female ruler.
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In our first podcast for the History Today Book Club, History Today Editor Paul Lay talks to Helen Castor, author of our recommended book for July, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Faber). In this podcast she discusses one of history’s most important themes – contingency – how the happenstance of Edward VI’s early death in 1553 meant that there were now only women left on the Tudor family tree.
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Ian Mortimer discusses historical fiction and his latest novel Sacred Treason with Kathryn Hadley.
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Kathryn Hadley interviews historian Norman Stone about his book Turkey: A Short History
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Philip Matyszak, author of 'Gladiator - the Roman Fighter's Unofficial Manual' talks to Kathryn Hadley, History Today Magazine's Web Editor, about the research and themes of his book.
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Paul Lay launches History Today's new series of regular podcasts in which the world’s leading historians shed light on contemporary concerns.
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