Rachel Dinning

Rachel Dinning is the Premium Content Editor at <em>HistoryExtra</em>. She joined the <em>BBC History Magazine</em> team in 2017 after working as a news reporter for the <em>Gloucestershire Gazette</em>, where she covered local news stories and interviewed politicians including former prime minister Boris Johnson. She has a degree in English Literature and a master's degree in Journalism – but has always had a passion for history, particularly women's history and telling lesser known stories from the past. Rachel has interviewed a number of expert speakers for the award-winning <em>HistoryExtra</em> podcast, from historian Dan Jones to film director Peter Jackson. You can find her on Twitter @racheldinning, where she tweets everything from cat GIFs to her favourite historical facts.