The British Academy published a volume of essays about the eminent Victorian historian, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892). 

To explore why Freeman is such an intriguing character, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA puts questions to the two editors of the volume, Dr Alex Bremner and Dr Jonathan Conlin.

Speakers (in order of speaking):

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA
Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford

Dr Jonathan Conlin
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Southampton

Dr Alex Bremner
Senior Lecturer in Architectural History, University of Edinburgh

Recorded 7 December 2015 at Trinity College, Oxford

Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics, edited by G A Bremner & Jonathan Conlin (Proceedings of the British Academy, 202) was published in October 2015. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-history-9780197265871

A version of this conversation is published in British Academy Review 27 (February 2016)
www.britac.ac.uk/review/27/


Edward Augustus Freeman and the making of history

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