Interview Transcripts
On the Burning Archive I have interviewed some leading historians and public intellectuals from around the world.
Now for paid subscribers I am putting together a page with full transcripts of these interviews so they can be read apart from the ever-passing parade of videos on YouTube.
Thanks to
for prompting me to take this initiative.Sheila Fitzpatrick, (Soviet Union/Russia)
You can watch the video here.
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Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick is her generation’s leading English-language historian of the Soviet Union. Her work has transformed the study of Soviet history, in particular scholarship on the Russian revolution and the Stalin years.
The full edited transcript of the Sheila Fitzpatrick Interview (14 June 2025) is available for paid subscribers here.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, (World History)
You can watch the video here, Unveiling Global Narratives: A Historian's Perspective | Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Transcript coming soon.
Marie Favereau, (Mongols, Horde & Eurasia)
You can watch the video here How the Mongols changed the world | Interview | Marie Favereau, historian
Transcript coming soon
Marta Havryshko (Ukraine, Far-Right & Holocaust)
You can watch the video here, How Far Right Fanatics Ruined Ukraine | Historian Tells the Story the West Hides | Marta Havryshko
Transcript coming soon
Sophie Loy-Wilson, (Australia-China Relations)
You can watch the video here, Can Australia and China rewrite their shared Asian history? | Historian Sophie Loy-Wilson
Transcript coming soon
Samantha Rose Hill, (Arendt and Benjamin)
You can watch the video here, Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Freedom | Walter Benjamin's Poetry of History (with Samantha Rose Hill).
Transcript coming soon
Warwick Powell, (Australia-China Relations)
You can watch the video here, How Australia, China & Asia can live together in a multipolar world with Warwick Powell
Transcript coming soon
Linda Jaivin (China)
You can watch the video here, What REALLY happened in China's Cultural Revolution? Why did Mao Bombard the Headquarters!?
Transcript coming soon
Richard Sakwa (Russia)
You can watch the video here, How to build lasting peace by avoiding a Second Cold War | Richard Sakwa Interview
Transcript coming soon
Hannah Forsyth (Professions)
You can watch the video here, The history of the professions (Interview with historian, Hannah Forsyth).
Transcript coming soon
Glenn Diesen (Eurasia & World Order)
You can watch the video here, Peace After NATO: Glenn Diesen on Ukraine, Eurasia, Australia, and the Danger of Alliances
Transcript coming soon
KJ Noh (Korea)
I have done two historically focussed shows with KJ. You can watch these videos here,
From Comfort Women to Stolen Generations | Korea's International Adoption Scandal
Korea Crisis: Deep causes of the real crisis of Korea and US power | Interview with KJ Noh
Transcripts coming soon