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Jul 5, 2024 | 
newlinesmag.com | Charlotte Riley
In the summer of 2023, it was reported that a former British member of Parliament was trying to take legal action to shut down threats to her good name. So far, so predictable: But rather than a particular person or publication, Antoinette Sandbach wanted to instruct lawyers to act against the very process of doing history.
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May 9, 2024 | 
intelligencesquared.com | Suzanne Nossel |Charlotte Riley
For more than two decades Intelligence Squared has brought together the most brilliant minds in the world to debate the issues that matter – in a respectful and civil manner. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be bringing this mission to the world of print with a new book series called THINK AGAIN, published in partnership with The Bodley Head, one of the UK’s leading publishers of nonfiction.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
manchesterhive.com | Charlotte Riley
When I think about male historians explaining things to me, one moment stands out. I was giving a paper at a seminar, at which I had been invited to speak. I finished my paper and we opened the floor to questions: queries, suggestions, have-you-looked-at, do-you-think. It was pleasant, and I started to wonder why I had been nervous. Then a man asked me a question, a factual question about a date, or a name, or something (it really wasn’t important) and I wasn’t sure about the answer.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
ft.com | Charlotte Riley
On January 28 1965, Laurence Marks, a 16-year-old schoolboy, bunked off school with three friends to queue for hours in the freezing cold...
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
thenationalnews.com | Charlotte Riley |Syed Hamad Ali
In 1959, the BBC Caribbean Service produced a guide for prospective migrants to the United Kingdom.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
hive.co.uk | Charlotte Riley
DescriptionImperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years. 'An eye-opening study of the empire within' SHASHI THAROOR'Clear, bold, refreshing' LUCY WORSLEYAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But the effects of empire lived on, shaping its population and politics and dominating its relationship with the world ever since.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Charlotte Riley
Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years. 'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONES'Incisive, important, and incredibly timely' CAROLINE ELKINSAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated.
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May 6, 2023 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Charlotte Riley
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, which took place in June 1953, was an occasion like never before. The first British coronation to be fully televised, with cameras being allowed inside Westminster Abbey for the ceremony itself, it was a fully public event that sought to construct a particular type of royal identity for the new Queen.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Charlotte Riley
Call the Midwife was an instant hit when it was first broadcast on BBC1 in 2012; the second series was commissioned on the strength of the pilot episode alone, which attracted almost ten million viewers. It has now run to eleven series, with a twelfth scheduled to be broadcast in 2023. The series is loosely based on the memoir of Jennifer Worth, who began her career in Whitechapel in the 1950s; her autobiographical trilogy has sold almost a million copies.
