Author

Michael Wood

Historian film-maker and broadcaster Michael Wood has brought history alive for PBS viewers for the last thirty years. He is the author of several best selling books and well over one hundred documentary films which the New York Times has described as ‘among the best history documentaries ever shown on TV”. PBS viewers will especially remember his epic journey In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, and more recently The Story of India, which the Wall Street Journal said was ‘still the gold standard’ of documentary history making. His latest series The Story of China will be shown on PBS in summer 2017. Michael was born in Manchester, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oriel College Oxford, where he did post-graduate research in early English history. He is currently Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Michael recently received the British Academy President’s Medal for services to History and public outreach.

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