Film: Acts of Union and Disunion
An Interview with Linda Colley
By Professor Linda Colley & Professor Justin Champion, published 20th January 2015
Professor Linda Colley CBE, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS is a British Historian and a Fellow of the Historical Association.
At the start of 2014 she wrote and presented a BBC Radio 4 series about the Acts of Union and Disunion, now a book. Over the summer she came into the HA offices to be interviewed by our President, Professor Justin Champion, to discuss Magna Carta, ongoing issues in British history and her work as a historian.
An Interview with Linda Colley
- The challenges of writing the book and BBC broadcast.
- What is British History?
- The recurring historical fault lines of the UK
- The Unwritten Constitution
- The Legacy of Magna Carta
- What is the role of the historian?
- How do you choose your subjects?
- What is your next project?
- What does Magna Carta mean to you?