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Memory, places, people: an interview with Peter Ross
Marking the publication of Peter's latest book, Upon a White Horse, in paperback
 • Mathew Lyons
Shakespeare at work: an interview with Darren Freebury-Jones
How innovative research techniques reveal new insights into Shakespeare's working life among his fellow players and playwrights
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Anne Sebba
How to do justice to the lives and histories of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Tiffany Jenkins
How ideas about private and public life have evolved since the Reformation
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Helen Castor
The tragic reigns of Richard II and Henry IV and the challenges of medieval history
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Anne Sebba
How to do justice to the lives and histories of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Daisy Dunn
Recovering the forgotten histories of women in the Ancient World
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Nicola Tallis
The tumultuous early life of the woman who would become Elizabeth I
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Edward Wilson-Lee
Pico della Mirandola, magical language and the profoundly human need for the sublime
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Laura Thompson
Discussing as good a memoir as you will read about Englishness, female indomitability and martinis so strong they taste of nothing but strength
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Helen Castor
The tragic reigns of Richard II and Henry IV and the challenges of medieval history
 • Mathew Lyons
Interview: Darren Freebury-Jones
How innovative research techniques and new thinking are revealing Shakespeare at work among the players and playwrights of the English Renaissance
 • Mathew Lyons
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