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UCL History staff make regular appearances in media and inform policy.听Here is a list of selected appearances听since 2018.

Individual staff听profile pages听contain more detail about their media and policy expertise. We also frequently share details about their activities on our New and Events page, as well as on social media.

Ancient History

  • Hans van Wees featured听on BBC Radio 4 , March 2023.
  • Eleanor Robson interviewed on BBC by Diane Morgan, September 2022.
  • Julietta Steinhauer interviewed for (Women in Research, University of Munster) uncovering the lives of 'normal people' in Ancient Greece, June 2021.
  • Julietta Steinhauer interviewed for听, BBC World Service, January 2021.
  • Valentina Arena interviewed for UCL's European Institute podcast,听COVID-19: The Pandemic and Europe, May 2020.
  • Vivienne Lo interviewed on BBC World Service CrowdScience progamme , February 2020.
  • 'Violence and Conflict': Eleanor Robson appeared on programme in January 2019.
  • Valentina Arena听听to talk about the Roman orator Cicero, January 2018.

Medieval and Early Modern History

  • John Sabapathy quoted in The Guardian听article, March 2021.
  • John Sabapathy was interviewed for the UCL Minds podcast听, May 2020.
  • Ben Kaplan听was 听about 皇家华人's Chair of Dutch History and his work as a Low Countries historian in London.

Modern History

  • Mitchell Robertson听explains how US elections are won at the margins and that celebrity endorsements can help in winning over swing voters on (from 1hr, 48 min, 15 sec)
  • William Booth discusses the on TRT World, June 2024
  • Mitchell Robertson joins听BBC News to preview US Presidential Debate, June 2024
  • William Booth writes op-ed on for TRT World, June 2024
  • William Booth contributes to France24 interview on 鈥樷��, June 2024
  • William Booth features on BBC World Service: The History Hour [], June 2024
  • Andrew Seaton features on BBC Radio Cornwall speaking about , May 2024听
  • Andrew Seaton writes for Le Monde, May 2024
  • William Booth contributes to TRT World: The Newsmakers [], May 2024
  • William Booth appears on AlAraby TV [], May 2024
  • William Booth contributes to France24 interview on the , May 2024
  • William Booth writes for TRT World, April 2024
  • Michael Collins gives evidence to select committee at Westminster, February 2024.
  • Heather Jones quoted in BBC News article , September 2023.
  • Heather Jones quoted in BBC News article , June 2023.
  • Michael Collins commissioned for into racism and sexism in cricket. The report has received widespread media coverage, June 2023.
  • Heather Jones contributes to Michael Portillo's听'Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War', a television documentary on the Irish Civil War by Ireland's state broadcaster RTE, May 2023.
  • Mitchell Robertson appears on to discuss 鈥楾rump鈥檚 legal woes鈥�, April 2023.
  • Shirli Gilbert contributed to the : 鈥楰lassik Unterm Hakenkreuz: Der Maestro Und Die Cellistin von Auschwitz鈥� [Music under the Swastika: The Maestro and the Cellist from Auschwitz鈥橾, documentary film, 52鈥�/90鈥�. Deutsche Welle, December 2022.
  • Shirli Gilbert appeared on , February 2022.
  • Shirli Gilbert wrote and presented a 2-part documentary for the BBC World Service 鈥楾he Documentary: Music that Survived the Nazis鈥� ( and ), January 2022.
  • Mark Frost鈥檚 documentary film 鈥楽CENE UnSEEN鈥� won the award for Best Documentary on Music at the 2022 Bangkok International Documentary Awards and Festival, January 2022.
  • David Sim features in听BBC1 TV Programme .听
  • Lucia Patrizio Gunning interviewed for the run by the Ashmolean Museum (Episode 5: Hunting the Minotaur), November 2021.
  • Heather Jones听contributes听to this on the centenary of King George V's speech calling for reconciliation in Ireland at the opening of the Northern Irish parliament in 1921, June 2021.
  • Heather Jones writes article for about听the partition of Ireland, May 2021.
  • Mark Frost interviewed about documentary-making and his own current documentary history project for the , April 2021.
  • Tim Gibbs interviewed on and听 about Black History Month and Postcolonialism, October 2020.
  • Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite interviewed on BBC Radio 4 programme , June 2020.
  • Vivienne Lo interviewed on BBC4 TV programme , February 2020.
  • Margot Finn interviewed for , January 2020.
  • Nathaniel Morris , January 2020.
  • Margot Finn gives Royal Historical Society Presidential Address, available as a , December 2019.
  • Heather Jones interviewed for BBC2 documentary, , April 2019.
  • Heather Jones contributes to on the Irish War of Independence, February 2019.
  • 'Remembering the Silence': Heather Jones appears on November 2018.
  • Melvyn Stokes听appeared on BBC Radio Berkshire to discuss postwar cinemagoing in Britain and the career of the film actress Valerie Hobson, October 2018.
  • Shirli Gilbert wrote and presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3: , July 2018.
  • The Evening Standard published an article (pdf) on the 'British Cinema-going in the 1960s' project's immersive screening of Barbarella, January 2018.

American History and Politics

  • Kathleen Burke听featured in BBC Radio 4 programme , April 2021.
  • Kathleen Burke , July 2019.
  • Kathleen Burke interviewed for Radio 4 programme , March 2019.
  • Stephen Conway interviewed as part of the series, March 2019.

History of Gender and Sexuality

  • Victoria Dawson interviewed on BBC1 TV Programme , March 2019.听
  • Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite听appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show,听,听discussing women and pay through history, March 2018.