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The Divorce of Henry VIII: how book covers sell history
Earlier this week I blogged about news values and the Richard III discovery. One comment noted that I had a book to promote: wasn’t I doing exactly the sort of public engagement work I was criticising?...
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What’s the use of a History PhD, or how did I end up in telly?
As a member of Sheffield’s Student Services, each year I help out at the degree ceremonies. In the robing room one day last January I checked my mobile and picked up a voicemail from a TV production...
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Christendom Destroyed
On 4 July 2014, it finally happened, and in Waterstones, Sheffield. Seven years after I began work on it, my contribution to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series was published. The complete...
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The work-life imbalance of Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims
There are not many people who appear in the indexes of all three of these books, on quite different topics: A Handbook of Medieval Sexuality; Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900; and The...
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Telling ‘Guilty Women’ by its Cover: Putting Women in the Picture in...
In the case of my new book, Guilty Women, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-war Britain – to twist around a well-worn cliché – you can tell a book by its cover. In less than a thousand words, as...
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The Future of the (e)Book
This week a book I co-wrote with Tim Hitchcock was published. London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800, published in print and as an eBook, is intended to have an...
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