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...Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Neil Younger]Honestly, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by history. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? Like many, I studied the Tudors at A-Level, and loved the period, especially the reign of...

...Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Suzanne Forbes]I’m not sure there was a single turning point or experience that got me interested in history. I enjoyed history at school, but what really kept me interested in the subject was the process of researching and writing – I seem to enjoy working...

...Open University. We speak to him here about his current research on smoking in wartime Britain, as part of our Opening up history series...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Michael Reeve]I always find this sort of question interesting, and a bit tricky, as I have not...

...Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Katie Donington]My grandmother was a great lover of history; she wanted to study it at university, but she became profoundly deaf when she was a teenager and then the Second World War intervened. She would tell me stories about Tudors and Stuarts, and she also...