5 Historian interviews in 1 place
20 minute challenge
Hello fellow history lover!
I hope you have had a good week, and if not that this comes as a welcome distraction.
You may have already seen these, but in case, and to collate them all in one place for you, here are the 5 interviews I recorded at the Gloucester History Festival Spring Weekend. I had 20 minutes to sit down with each historian and I loved the challenge of creating a meaningful interview with them in such a short window of time. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as the historians seemed to too, and I hope so do you!
Click on the thumbnails below to watch your chosen interview. They are:
Halle Rubenhold - Women caught Dr Crippen! I spoke to Halle about the extraordinary role of women in persuading the police that there was something suspicious about the disappearance of Belle Elmore, ans also Dr Crippen’s mistress’s potential role in persuading Dr Crippen to kill his wife!
Ian Mortimer - Edward II was not murdered with a red hot poker, in fact he wasn’t murdered at all! Ian has spent many years reporting on the evidence he has discovered which strongly refutes the story that Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327. He goes further and asks us to examine how we think we know what we understand to be events in history, and how difficult it is to change and accepted narrative.
Max Adams - Anglo Saxons: The Biggest Misconception of the time. Far from being a ‘dark age,’ much of what we experience of English culture, governance and the landscape today, was formed in the Anglo-Saxon period. I spoke to Max about this and more.
Sharon Bennett Connolly - It wasn't Stephen vs Matilda in the Anarchy! Another misconception is challenged by Sharon’s work looking at the role of women in medieval England. Not only were they more involved than main narratives would perhaps suggest but, in the case of the ‘Anarchy,’ were front and centre!
Luke Pepera - African History is more than just the past 300 years! Women-led societies, art that inspired the world and word games in which modern rap music has its roots, are just some of the examples Luke gives to show that, important though it is to discuss, African history is far more than the past 300 years linked with slavery.
See you soon!
Philippa 💜