Meet Our Authors

Debbie Kilroy

Having read history at the University of Birmingham as an undergraduate, where I won the Kenrick Prize, I worked as a trouble-shooter in the public sector until I took a career break in 2009. Thereafter, I was able to pursue my love of history and turn it into a career, founding Get History in 2014 with the aim of bringing accessible yet high quality history-telling and debate to a wide audience. Since then, I have completed a Masters in Historical Studies at the University of Oxford, from which I received a distinction and the Kellogg College Community Engagement and Impact Award. As well as continuing to write for and expand Get...

Mark Piesing

Mark Piesing is a freelance journalist, author, presenter and occasional scriptwriter, living in Oxford, UK.

His first book, the critically acclaimed N-4 DOWN: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, was published by Mariner Books/HarperCollins in August 2021, with actor Matt Jamie narrating the excellent and popular audiobook.

He is currently working on his next book.

Tom Holland

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of several books on the ancient world - including Rubicon, Persian Fire, and Dynasty - and has written extensively on medieval Europe and the Near East. His latest book is Dominion, a study of Christianity and the West over the last two thousand years. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC, and has translated Herodotus for Penguin Classics. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient...

Steven Port

Steven Port lives in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He completed his Masters in Historical Studies at the University of Oxford in 2019. He feels he should really find one area of history about which he could become an expert, but he finds it all too damn interesting. He started his own historical blog, The Indecisive Historian, in 2020.

Helen Fry

Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of The London Cage, The Walls Have Ears, MI9, Spymaster and more than twenty books on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the social history of World War II. She appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts and has been involved in numerous documentaries

Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, and First: Sandra Day O’Connor. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for 33 years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years as Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief. He appears regularly on many TV and radio talk shows. Thomas has taught at Harvard and Princeton.

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Judy Piercey

Judy Piercey is a Canadian journalist, writer and public speaker. As a journalist, she reported for print and broadcast media, including the Canadian Press and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After winning several awards, including Canada’s top investigative award, she retired from CBC in 2014 after 10 years as a senior journalist. During three years of researching The Fierce, the author conducted 300 hours of interviews and pored through unseen court records, FBI and CIA reports, legislative archives and witness accounts of Ustashe atrocities.

David Kenyon

Dr David Kenyon is responsible for historical research in support of all public content at Bletchley Park, the Second World War code-breaking site in Buckinghamshire, now a museum. He also appears as a spokesman for Bletchley Park on TV and radio. He has published two books on Bletchley Park: Bletchley Park and D-Day in 2019, and Arctic Convoys, Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas in 2023.

He was previously a free-lance military historian and museum consultant and has worked on and appeared in numerous historical TV and film projects. Before that, he worked for a number of years as an archaeologist and is one of the UK’s...

Dr Sam Willis and Professor James Daybell

Dr Sam Willis is one of the country’s best-known historians. He has made more than ten major TV series for the BBC and National Geographic including The Silk Road, Maritime China Reborn, Relics of China, Invasion!, Castles: Britain’s Fortified History, Outlaws, Weapons: Britain’s Armed History and Shipwrecks: Britain’s Sunken History. His documentaries have won prizes globally. He has also written more than ten critically acclaimed and award-winning books, most recently three for the new Penguin Ladybird Expert Series: The Spanish Armada, The Battle of the Nile and The Battle of...