I have made a broad range of television, radio and podcast appearances, in local, national and international media, with some selected examples below; and details of my recent journalism can be found on my “Publications” page. Since 2022, I have been a recurring panelist on the Oh God, What Now? podcast, and a recurring presenter of its sister podcast, The Bunker. You can click on the above links for a fuller catalogue of these shows.
If you wish to get in touch with regards to media queries, lectures, talks, after-dinner speeches and debates around my areas of expertise, please see my “Contact” page.
A select list of my appearances is as follows:
Broadcast
ABC (Australia); ARD (Germany); BBC Daily Politics; BBC News; BBC Newsnight; BBC Radio 4; Channel 4 News; France 24; Indus News (Pakistan); ITV News; LBC radio, LTV1 (Latvia); NDTV (India); Sky News; Talk Radio Europe, Times Radio.
Podcasts (presenter/interviewer)
The Bunker; Oh God, What Now?
Podcasts (as guest)
Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell; HistoryHit; The Making of a Historian; Mile End Institute; Private Club Radio; Worst Foot Forward.
Speaking engagements (located in London, unless otherwise indicated)
ADC Theatre, Cambridge; Army and Navy Club; Athenaeum; Authors' Club; Bengal Club of Kolkata/Calcutta; Black's; Boodle's; Brasenose College, Oxford; Buck's; CACFE (City & Athletic Clubs Financial Executives - annual convention of North American club CFOs); Caledonian Club; Cambridge Union Society; Cambridge University Modern History Seminar; CEO Club of Ukraine; City Tavern Club, Georgetown; Clare College, Cambridge; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.; Curtain Club; Distinguished Clubs of the World annual convention for Club Secretaries and CEOs; Dorothy L. Sayers Society; Down Town Association, New York; East India Club; Farmers Club; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Goodenough College; Groucho Club; Hertford College, Oxford; House of Commons; House of St. Barnabas; Institute of Historical Research; Jesus College, Cambridge; Jesus College, Oxford; King's College, London; Lansdowne Club; Leash Club, New York; Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington, D.C.; Mildmay Club; Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; National Liberal Club; Naval and Military ("In and Out") Club; New Sheridan Club; Newnham College, Cambridge; NewSpeak House; North American Conference on British Studies, Vancouver; Northern Counties Club, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Nuffield College, Oxford; Oxford and Cambridge Club; Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; Oxford University Modern History Seminar; P. G. Wodehouse Society; Pen and Pencil Club, Philadelphia; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Peterhouse, Cambridge; Queen Mary University of London; The Queens’ College, Oxford; Racquet and Tennis Club, New York; Reform Club; Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid; Romney Street Group; Royal Over-Seas League; St. John’s College, Oxford; Savage Club; Savile Club; Selwyn College, Cambridge; Sherlock Holmes Society of London; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Social Liberal Forum; Somerset Club, Boston; Stoke Newington Literary Festival; T. E. Lawrence Society; Tennis and Racquet Club, Boston; Travellers Club; Trinity College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Oxford; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; UK party conference fringes (Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties); Union Club of New York City; University College London; Victoria & Albert Museum; Warwick University.
I spoke to Brendan Mackie of the University of California, Berkeley, whose own research is into 18th century London clubs, for the November 10, 2020 edition of his ‘The Making of a Historian‘ podcast.
I was the guest on the February 5, 2019 episode of the ‘Worst Foot Forward’ podcast, for an irreverent look at the chequered history of voiceovers.
Interview as part of a Money Programme special on the honours system, for Australia's ABC radio, January 26, 2017.
Interview on the Daily Politics, BBC2, October 7, 2016, for a segment about the British government's use of country houses.
Feature on the Daily Politics, BBC2, on January 22, 2016, about the role of clubs in politics.
Segment on BBC Radio 4, on June 5, 2015, on private members' clubs.
Teaching
My teaching and supervision cover a broad range of topics, mainly revolving around the history of Europe from the Enlightenment to the present day, and encompassing social, cultural, political, economic and intellectual history.
I was previously a Seminar Tutor in the History Department at the University of Warwick, teaching the “Making of the Modern World” module in 2011-2. I have also designed a number of courses, including a 2013 course at the Oxford Regis Summer School on the uses of speech and rhetoric in history; a 2014 summer school on “Victorian London: High Culture and Low Life”, focussing on nineteenth century London as the world's first truly globalised metropolis, jointly delivered through King’s College, London and the Victoria and Albert Museum; and a course on British cultural history which I designed and taught from 2015 for Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business summer module delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, until the wider summer programme was retired after 2018.