Media news archive 2010

27 November 2010 In an opinion piece for the The Australian (p14), 'Neglect of our history jeopardises our future', Dr Frank Bongiorno writes that contempt for politicians past and present may help explain Australia's national ignorance. Read the full article.

26 November 2010 Article in The National (p56) 'Thatcher still divides 20 years after resignation' by Professor Richard Vinen, in which he reassesses the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Read the full article.

23 November 2010 Professor David Carpenter says Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding at Westminster Abbey should be grand but inclusive in an interview for the Telegraph website on the appropriateness of the royal wedding venue. Watch Telegraph interview. This was followed by an appearance on NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, where Professor David Carpenter was interviewed on the same topic. Watch NBC interview.

15 November 2010 Dr Stephen Baxter appeared with Micael Portillo on a programme about King Harold II, as part of the Radio 4 series Things We Forgot to Remember. The programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 20.00, Monday 15 November 2010. Listen again on BBC iPlayer.

November 2010 Dr Serena Ferente is interviewed in the National Gallery podcast about Paolo Uccello's Battle of San Romano. Listen to the podcast (Episode Forty Nine, November 2010).

October 2010 As an addendum to Dr Stephen’s Baxter’s Domesday programme, Professor David Carpenter has been seen this year in a TimeTeam Special (on Westminster Abbey), in an episode of Dan Snow’s BBC Four ‘Norman Walks’ series (talking about William the Conqueror’s landing at Pevensey) and in an episode of Michael Wood's Story of England - The Great Famine and the Black Death, his history of the Leicestershire village of Kibworth. David comments that the Kibworth work was particular exciting "because I discovered how a local peasant, Wadard of Kibworth, led a procession of the villagers to the church of nearby Market Harborough in order to celebrate Simon de Montfort’s great victory at the battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264. When a Market Harborough villager tried to prevent the Kibworthians entering the church, Wadard, in the ensuing scuffle, killed him with his axe. Wadard’s subsequent pardon was an extraordinary document which proclaimed his association with and support for Simon de Montfort." The whole story will shortly appear as the ‘Fine of the Month’ for September on the website of the AHRC funded Henry III Fine Rolls Project, of which David is the Principal Investigator. The episode in which David appears went out on BBC Four on Wednesday 6 October at 21:00 and is repeated on Saturday 9 October at 20:00. The Michael Wood's Story of England series will also be aired on on BBC 2, starting 18 October. Watch on BBC iPlayer.

1 October 2010 The Building On History: The Church In London research project appeared in a feature length article entitled 'History is for today: A new way of looking at Church history' in The Church of England Newspaper. The article included comments from the Department's Professor Arthur Burns (pictured left) who is a co-director of the project. Download article.

11 August 2010 Dr Stephen Baxter's BBC2 Domesday documentary, broadcast on Tuesday 10 August 2010 at 20:00, was a very succesful television debut. BBC viewing figures estimate that 2.1 million viewers tuned in to watch the programme, which has received high praise in today's television reviews. According to critic John Crace, writing in the Guardian, "Domesday (BBC2) ... rewrote history for the academics. This was history as breaking news... It's rare for TV to open such a radically different perspective on a national treasure and rarer still to make it come alive, so Baxter is clearly a TV star in the making." Read the full review. A live screening of the programme took place at King's, attracting over 70 invited guests, see photos of the event. On 19 August 2010 in the Times Higher Education, Gary Day offers his analysis of "Smoking Steve" and "Bruiser Bob" going head to head over the Normans. Read the full article.

11 August 2010 The new portuguese edition Dr Toby Green's Inquisition is featured in a 3-page article in the portuguese magazine Sabado, published 11 August 2010. Read the article.

6 August 2010 Dr Stephen Baxter's Domesday documentary, to be aired on Tuesday 10 August at 20:00 on BBC Two, is featured as the 'Pick of the day' in this week's Radio Times and TV guide magazines. TV guide also features an interview with Dr Baxter (pictured left). Download pdf below.

5 August 2010 Dr Ian McBride's Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (Gill and Macmillan, October 2009), is reviewed in the London Review of Books in a 2-page article by Matthew Kelly. "McBride’s scintillating book, which catapults him into the first rank of Ireland’s historians, leaves one reflecting that Ireland’s long 18th century has had an even longer afterlife.” Download full article in pdf below.

July 2010 The Department's Dr Stephen Baxter answers questions on the Domesday Book in a special 6-page article in the July 2010 issue of the BBC History Magazine. The article, which has colour reproductions from the Domesday book, is featured as the magazine's cover story. Download pdf below.

30 July 2010 Article 'Calls to honour: Shifting fact from heroic fiction in the life of Charles de Gaulle' by the Department's Professor Richard Vinen, featured as a cover story in the Times Literary Supplement on 30 July 2010. Download pdf below.

28 July 2010 Hindustan Times (India) Article by Joshua Hey, a history student, on studying at King's and life in London. http://www.hindustantimes.com/HTHorizons/hthorizonssectionpage-otherstories/Live-life-Kingsize/SP-Article1-578782.aspx

11 July 2010 On Sunday 11 July, the Department's Dr Anne Goldgar, Reader in Early Modern European History, was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme Broadcasting House before Sunday's World Cup final, discussing the historical relationships between the Dutch and the English.