Category: Interviews
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Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Lydia Sanders on Telling Herstories
Lydia Sanders is interviewed by Manahil Masood about her work to create books which teach children about women from history in engaging ways.
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Shattering Illusions: Medieval Gender, Religion, and Emotion – A Conversation with Dr. Kirsty Day
From cultural history and the history of emotions to the gender of the pope, Nadja Dixon interviews Edinburgh University’s Dr. Kirsty Day.
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Interview with Kate McCaffrey, Assistant Curator at Hever Castle
Historian and Assistant Curator at Hever Castle, Kate McCaffrey conducted pioneering research on Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours. Naomi Wallace interviews Kate where she discusses her intriguing discoveries and career.
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Pompeii: Digging the details with Jasmine Khelil
Written by Fiona Macrae. Despite just being in her second year of a History and Classics undergraduate degree, Jasmine Khelil has had the opportunity to dig at some of the most renowned archaeological sites in the world, including Pompeii. In this interview, Fiona Macrae discusses Jasmine’s route into archaeology, her experiences and her advice for…
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The Power of Publishing: In Conversation with Professor Kara Cooney
For our Welcome Week 2021 event, Retrospect was joined by Professor Kara Cooney to discuss publishing, power and her latest book, ‘The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World’.
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Editing the Jamaica Reader: A Conversation with Professor Diana Paton and Professor Matthew Smith
Professor Diana Paton and Professor Matthew Smith sit down with Retrospect’s EIC, Jamie Gemmell, to discuss their new volume: The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics.
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Writing Postcolonial Histories – A Conversation with Dr. Julie Gibbings
Dr Julie Gibbings sits down with Retrospect’s Jamie Gemmell to discuss her 2020 work Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala.
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Classics in Conversation
The 5th and final part of “Classics in Conversation” discusses the potential to further globalise the discipline and what the future might hold for prospective students in the field.
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