Kev Lochun

I’m Kev, Digital Editor (Audience & Video) at HistoryExtra, I set the strategy for HistoryExtra’s open-access content, commission leading historians across our platforms, and sometimes you’ll hear me interviewing them on the HistoryExtra podcast. I’m also editorial lead for HistoryExtra app (if you haven’t downloaded it yet, I'd highly encourage it) and I'm an active video creator – presenting and editing longform and shortform content, in studio and on location, for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. I’m an arch-fan of all things medieval and Viking, and hold a particular interest in the intersections between history and pop culture – which means I also lead the website’s coverage of historical TV and film. Under the guise of exploring history, I’ve trained in 14th-century Italian broadsword (courtesy of Fiore dei Liberi, who was kind enough to leave a manual), learned to sail a Viking longship in Roskilde, and hiked the ancient Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail in Japan’s Kii peninsula. These days, I’m a defiantly average archer. I’ve been a journalist for almost 20 years. Prior to joining the history portfolio in 2018, I wrote about space science for BBC Sky at Night magazine. I hold a postgraduate qualification in magazine journalism from Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture. My bylines include BBC History Revealed, BBC Science Focus, Your Family History, Men’s Health, GamesRadar and CVG.