Our Editors
Eleanor Whitcombe
Eleanor writes about the ancient and medieval world: the empires, cities and ideas that quietly built the modern one. She has a weakness for archaeology stories where the ground gives up something nobody expected.
Marcus Delacroix
Marcus covers the conflicts and revolutions of the last three centuries and what they left behind on today's maps, laws and borders. He is happiest when a modern headline turns out to have a 200-year-old backstory.
Priya Raman
Priya writes the American story, from the colonies to living memory, with a focus on the people history books tend to leave out. She believes every town has at least one story worth a national audience.
Tomás Ferreira
Tomás profiles the monarchs, leaders, rebels and dynasties whose decisions still shape nations. He is less interested in the crown than in the choice that was made the night before the battle.
Hannah Lindqvist
Hannah covers the films, music, books, photographs, fashion and food through which people actually lived their history. If it was in a kitchen, a cinema or on a record sleeve, it is her beat.
Jonah Okafor
Jonah collects the oddities: the unsolved, the unbelievable-but-true and the stories that sound like legend until the documents turn up. He checks every one twice before it runs.