Podcasts

Podcast interview
Rex Factor

Interview with Dana Schwartz
Noble Blood

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan
Newstalk, here

BBC PM, Radio 4
Link here

The Times Radio, with Daniel Finkelstein
Link here

Interview with Miranda Melcher, here
New Books Network

Interview with David Musgrove, here
BBC History Extra

Interview with Matt Lewis, here
History Hit, Gone Medieval

Interview with Danièle Cybulskie, here
The Medieval Podcast

Cambridge Talking News
Talking News Federation

Interview with Charlie Higson, here
Willy, Willy, Harry, Stee…

High Flyers with Tom Holland, here
Making History, BBC Radio 4

Events

Sherborne Historical Society, talk followed by a book signing
7 January, 2027, details here

Harvington Hall History Festival
22 July, 2026, details forthcoming

The Ian Keil Annual Lecture, Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society
21 April, 2026

Oxford Literary Festival, March 2026
26 March, 2026

University of the Third Age, Cambridge
25 March, 2026 (the McCrum lecture theatre, Corpus Christi College)

Historical Association, Virtual Branch
21 January, 2026, details here

Malmesbury Abbey, book talk (The First King of England), followed by a book signing
16 January, 2026, tickets available here

Ely, Topping and Company Bookseller, talk and book signing
24 November, 2025, tickets available here

Gloucester History Festival
14 September, 2025

Media coverage

BBC News, campaign for recognition of Æthelstan as the first king of England
2 September, 2025

The Daily Telegraph, on The First King of England
2 September, 2025

El Mundo, on The First King of England
2 September, 2025

Science Magazine
Science news

SciTechDaily
Article

Cambridge Independent
Time to recognise Æthelstan

Medievalists.net
Article

Archaeology News
Online Magazine

Cambridge University
2 September, 2025

Articles

Page 99 Blog
The page 99 test

On Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England, forthcoming here
BBC History Magazine

England’s Colossus (Æthelstan), here
BBC History Magazine

Confessions of a King, here
Aspects of History

After Me, Conquest, here
History Today

Writing a biography of Æthelstan
Princeton Ideas

YouTube/Video recordings

Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
September, 2025

Cambridge University interview about Æthelstan and his reign
September, 2025