Hilary Mantel talks about history, facts and fictions
Hilary Mantel, a novelist rightly famous for twice winning the Man Booker prize with her historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, yesterday gave the first of her three BBC Reith Lectures. In the first lecture (published here in this weekend’s The Guardian), Mantel explores the complicated relationship between history, fact and fiction. You should really go…
Why is history still written mainly by men?
Fantastic article in The Guardian: Only four female writers appeared in the list of top 50 bestselling history titles in the UK last year. And women are still perceived as more suited to writing about drawing rooms than battlefields. Why? Leading historians and biographers discuss sexism and subject matter. All the big British names in…