Interview with Adrian Kavanagh

Hilary Mantel: why I didn't meet any historians before starting 'Wolf Hall'

The Booker prizewinning author talks about novelists and academic historians’ ‘complementary trades’, ‘less subtle’ scholars and studying for a lifetime

By Matthew Reisz

3 May

Interview with Robert Bickers

The Wolfson History Prize-nominated professor discusses how China’s past shapes its nationalism and why the Communist Party’s ‘historical nihilist’ label suits him

By John Morgan

26 April

Elena Rodriguez-Falcon: efforts to get more women into engineering have not gone far enough

The inaugural provost of Hereford’s new engineering university on moving from Mexico’s industrial heartland to the UK’s Steel City and life as a gay woman in a male-dominated profession

By Jack Grove

19 April