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Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is one of the most significant scholars of women and gender at work today. She began her career as a historian of early modern Europe, but she has since expanded her focus to encompass global history. She has written extensively on gender, religious, and social history and the pedagogy of history. In this episode, she discusses the defining questions of her career and some of her current projects.

Bruce Lockhart is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He has written extensively on Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, with particular focus on kings and monarchy. In this special episode, he discusses his ongoing project on the modern Thai monarchy, his recent article on the Siamese monarchy from 1935 to 1946, and the process of historical writing. 

Karin Wulf is Professor of History at the College of William & Mary in the United States, where is is also the director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She specialises in the study of women, family, and gender in the Early Modern Atlantic world, and she has published several books on women's and social history in the British North American colonies. In this episode, she discusses her latest research, on lineage and genealogy, as well as the conceptual frameworks on which her research lies.

Ian Mortimer has published fourteen historical books - ten nonfiction and four fiction - in addition to numerous scholarly and journalistic articles, poetry, and several collections of historical documents. He is best known for his Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which popularised a new method of historical storytelling. In this episode, he discusses the last book in the Time Traveller's Guide series - on Regency Britain - as well as his hopes for future research and the development of history as a field.

Linda Porter studied history at the University of York and spent the early part of her career lecturing in the United States before changing paths to work in public relations at BT. Since leaving BT nearly fifteen years ago, she has written five books on influential but often misunderstood figures in early modern British history, including Mary I and Katherine Parr. In this episode, she discusses her newest book, a study of Charles II, his mistresses, and the making of the modern British monarchy.

Sir Richard Evans studied at Jesus College and St. Antony's College, Oxford before going on to become a leading historian of 19th and 20th century Europe. His work focuses especially on Germany, and he is best known for his three-volume history of the Third Reich. He is also a prolific journalist and commentator, and, over the past five years, he has led a project on conspiracy theories and democracy. In this episode, he discusses the book which he has written to conclude this project, as well as his earlier work and his thoughts on Third Reich historiography.