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Mary Beard, writer and feminist, at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019 on April 3, 2019 in Oxford, England

Video-podcast Mary Beard on how to live like a Roman emperor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia “The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

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Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Simon Schama “Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Henry III of England.

David Carpenter on Henry III “He was not a great king but he was respected as a most Christian one” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christopher Clark at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Photo by Damien McFadden)

Christopher Clark “The 1848 revolutions were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dr Clare Jackson (Photo by Caroline Mardon)

Clare Jackson on the Restoration “Radical ideas that had been preached and published could not be unthought” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Peter Frankopan on humanity’s long relationship with nature . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video Tracy Borman on Elizabeth I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tiya Miles

“Superbly written” story of women’s experiences of slavery wins the 2022 Cundill History Prize

Hilary Mantel, pictured in Oxford in 2017

Hilary Mantel remembered “She changed the way we think about history”

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Hakim Adi

Hakim Adi “There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds line the streets to watch the funeral cortege of Queen Victoria in February 1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tracy Borman A guide to royal funerals through history

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Dan Jones on writing historical fiction . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.