Author: Greg Jenner

Greg Jenner brings historical research and comedy together as a British author, broadcaster, podcaster, and public historian. He worked on the BBC series Horrible Histories for eleven years, then created and hosted You're Dead to Me, a BBC podcast pairing historians with comedians. Dead Famous follows changing ideas of celebrity from the ancient world to the early screen era. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson after four years of research, it examines more than 125 public figures to ask how fame is made and remembered. Alongside A Million Years in a Day and Ask a Historian, the book makes historical methods and unexpected evidence approachable without reducing the past to trivia.