Curated playlist
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Jack ScarisbrickHistorian Jack Scarisbrick argued that most English people did not want the Reformation.
- Miranda KaufmannHistorian Miranda Kaufmann found Africans living in Tudor England. They arrived before the transatlantic slave trade.
- Andrew LambertHistorian Andrew Lambert holds a chair named for the scholar whose reputation he worked to restore.
- David Wootton (historian)David Wootton's 2006 book Bad Medicine traces doctors doing harm back to Hippocrates.
- Janet NelsonAfter her 1967 PhD, Janet Nelson's supervisor reportedly told a colleague not to speak of her.
- Geoffrey EltonGeoffrey Elton argued that Thomas Cromwell, more than Henry VIII, drove a revolution in English government.
- Irfan HabibIrfan Habib spent decades studying Mughal land and tax records. The historian argued peasant suffering was structural.
- John Guy (historian)Two of historian John Guy's books on Mary Queen of Scots became the source for a 2018 film.
- Correlli BarnettMichael Heseltine gave every Cabinet member a copy of Correlli Barnett's The Lost Victory.
- Frank McLynnFrank McLynn won a Classics scholarship to Oxford, then dropped Classics. He chose subjects he expected to neglect.
- Quentin SkinnerQuentin Skinner turned down a knighthood offered with a Cambridge professorship. His republicanism would not allow it.
- A. L. RowseA china clay worker's son from Cornwall claimed to name Shakespeare's Dark Lady.
- Timothy ReuterHistorian Timothy Reuter translated a German scholar's book on the medieval church into English.