Royal Historical Society

He's a professor of history at the University of Virginia, one of the leading historians of the American Revolution as seen from the British and imperial side.

He's born in Cheshire, England, now is a dual citizen of Britain and the U.S., fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a visiting fellow at Oxford's Rothmeier American Institute.

Andrew O'Shaughnessy, welcome to Socrates in the City.

Thank you very much, Eric.

you a little bit.

That's a terrible, you know, if I say yes, I think so to that, you know, I will never go to a proceeding of the Royal Historical Society again.

You know, that's like, you know, that's going over to the dark side, just as Eleanor Colm did.

I find myself very haunted by these characters when I'm writing them.

Dr. Michael Haykin is professor of church history and biblical spirituality at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies.

as well as being a member of the Royal Historical Society.

He's the author of many incredible books and articles.

We've had him on, I think, three times before.

I'm a historian.

I'm a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

I'm not a salacious gossip.

Uh, I deal in fact, and these are facts that I thought were really illuminating, uh, really about what Diana was dealing with.

Rubio also went on to call for Europe to awake from its long slumber.

Uh, so if he is right about this inflection point and Europe's long slumber to its detriment, uh, do we see the makings of a meeting of the moment? Dominic Green is a columnist for the Washington Examiner, contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He joins us now.

Dominic, thanks for being with us.

Dominic Green, columnist for the Washington Examiner-

Thank you

... contributor to The Wall Street Journal and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Dominic, thanks as always.

Well, here you are, right? We've, we have waited, and we have saved you up.

Your research, you teach at the University of London, you are a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Institute for Historical Research, but your research area is, is the Nazis.

That's a heavy research area, Lisa.

Yeah, and I've been doing it for decades, but, um- Started, um, studying as an undergraduate, then postgraduate, and my PhD was on Nazi family policy.

I'm a historian.

I'm a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

I'm not a salacious gossip.

Uh, I deal in fact, and these are facts that I thought were really illuminating, uh, really about what Diana was dealing with Um, and, and, and the book is a celebration of Diana that happens to include facts that are difficult for other people.

Jules Scottnis Brown is a historian of animals, disease, and knowledge production in the 19th and 20th centuries.

He's the author of Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa between 1910 and 1948, which is what we talk a fair bit about today, and it won the Royal Historical Society's first book prize in 2025.

He is currently writing a second book on the global history of rats, plague, and capitalist infrastructure in the 20th century.

Jules completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, History and Philosophy Science in 2020, and he is currently a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the University of Liverpool, and a PI of the Wellcome Trust funded research project, Conserving Global Health, Biodiversity Protection, and the Prehistory of Planetary Health.

This is the first time it has been displayed in England since it was made almost a thousand years ago.

In this episode, I'm speaking to Dr David Musgrove, a historian with a doctorate in medieval landscape archaeology, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and content director at History Extra.

With Michael Lewis, he wrote the story of the Bayeux Tapestry, unravelling the Norman conquest.

We are going to explore some of the most surprising mysteries of the tapestry, from a possible hidden royal sex scandal to the crucial characters left out, and ultimately interrogate the question.