The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage.
The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist magazines, each of which is a leader in its field, and by our global network of writers and editors. Day by day, we promise to bring you up-to-the minute news and the latest research, plus in-depth features, exclusive interviews, and guest editorials.
The result is a new essential destination for anyone interested in any aspect of the past, all packaged in a beautifully designed website – authoritative, easy to read and navigate, beautifully illustrated.
So whether you’re an armchair historian, a budding archaeologist or a heritage enthusiast, if you really care about the past, you need a subscription to The Past.
Who are we?
Laurence Earle
Executive Editor
Laurence has held a series of senior roles on some of the UK’s most prestigious newspapers and magazines.
He spent more than 20 years as Executive Editor and an award-winning Magazine and Features Editor for The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers.
He was also launch COO of HistoryHit TV, the unique digital subscription video-on-demand service, fronted by the historian Dan Snow and described by The Times as the ‘Netflix for history’.
Most recently he was Executive Editor of The Week – one of the most popular and respected weekly news magazines.
Carly Hilts
Archaeology Editor (UK)
Carly studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at St John’s College, Cambridge, before becoming a journalist at Masons News Service, where she helped to cover eight counties in the east of England for the national papers.
Quickly realising that she preferred covering history and archaeology stories above all others, she then joined Time Team as a researcher, later working for the Horrible Histories TV series; providing background information for educational history videos; helping with the development of an ancient Egyptian-themed computer game; and assisting with research for the recently-published The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered.
She is editor of Current Archaeology Magazine.
Matthew Symonds
Archaeology Editor (World)
Matt studied archaeology at Nottingham University, and then at Christ Church, Oxford. He is a visiting fellow at Newcastle University, has co-edited three volumes on Roman frontiers, and is particularly interested in Roman fortlets. He has excavated in Bulgaria, Sicily, Italy, and Britain, but is most at home on Hadrian’s Wall.
He is editor of Current World Archaeology magazine.
Calum Henderson
Senior Writer
Calum read History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he developed interests in revolutionary and modern political history. He continued his studies at the University of Glasgow with an MA in Modern History, writing a thesis on 21st century American interventions in the Middle East.
After some work as an online journalist, Calum joined MHM as Assistant Editor.
Kathryn Krakowka
Science Editor
Kathryn received her DPhil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford in 2017, where she specialised in human osteology. For her doctoral thesis she focused on identifying the prevalence and patterns of violence-related trauma in medieval London and has continued to publish on the topic. She has also worked as a research associate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, working to record and analyse their extensive human remains collections, most of which originated from the medical and anatomical museum at Christ Church College, Oxford.
She is Deputy Editor of Current Archaeology magazine.
Amy Brunskill
News & Reviews Editor
Amy studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University before deciding that archaeology was her preferred subject. She then went on to read for an MA Archaeology at Durham, focusing on art in Palaeolithic Europe.
She is also interested in the presentation of archaeology and heritage to the public, having worked in a number of museums including the British Museum, Museum of London, and the Foundling Museum, and led a heritage project studying the economic impact of Durham Castle on the surrounding area for the UNESCO World Heritage Site management plan.
Chris Catling
Contributing Editor
Chris has been digging since he was 16, and is currently co-Director with Tim Darvill of an excavation near Cirencester looking at a linked Neolithic long barrow and causewayed enclosure.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the best-selling author of travel guides to Venice, Florence, Amsterdam, Madeira, London and Crete, and countless popular articles on British archaeology.
Andrew Selkirk
Founding Editor
Andrew Selkirk founded Current Archaeology in 1967, and is now Editor-in-Chief.
Andrew Selkirk is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute, and has served on the councils of the Prehistoric Society, and the Roman Society.
He is currently writing a book, Barbarism and Civilisation, extracts of which can be read on the website www.civilization.org.uk
Joe Flatman
Contributing Editor
Since 2012 Joe has been Head of Listing Programmes at Historic England. He has published widely on matters of heritage policy, law and management, including the books Prehistoric Archaeology of the Continental Shelf (2014), Archaeology in Society: Its Relevance in the Modern World (2012) and Becoming an Archaeologist: A Guide to Professional Pathways (2011). You can follow him on Twitter @joeflatman.
Charles Higham
Asia Correspondent
Charles Higham is Professor of Otago University in New Zealand, and an authority on Cambodia’s Angkor civilisation and Ban Non Wat in Thailand.
Richard Hodges
Europe Correspondent
Richard Hodges OBE is president of The American University of Rome, and former professor and director of the Institute of World Archaeology at the University of East Anglia and the former Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.
He has also dug extensively at Butrint in Albania.
Office
Rob Selkirk
Managing Director
Maria Earle
Publisher
Emma Watts
Marketing & Digital Manager
Mike Traylen
Advertising Sales Manager
Mark Edwards
Art Editor
