Paul Readman

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. Paul has a long-standing interest in the ways that human experience shapes, and is shaped by, landscape and place. His latest book is "Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity" (2018). He is also author of "Land and Nation: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land" (2008), and his other publications include "The Land Question in Britain, 1759-1950" (2010), "Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914" (2014) and "Walking Histories, 1800–1914" (2016).

Paul leads the major Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded project, "The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2016". This project has published a free-to-use multi-million-word database with details of over 650 pageants: www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/.