Writing History for Different Audiences

August 28 at 9amPT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm BST

Join authors Lisa M. Lane and Erin Fetterly for a discussion on writing history for an academic v. public audience, the different ways of writing historical nonfiction v. fiction, and the prevalence of history in popular culture. Amanda Perry will moderate the discussion.

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Lisa M. Lane is a historian, retired college history instructor, and fiction author. Academic interests include Victorian technologies, the early works of H. G. Wells, and the history of distance education. She recently published H. G. Wells on Science Education, 1886-1897, an annotated collection of Wells’s early articles on science teaching. As a fiction writer, she enjoys putting flesh on the bones of the past. Her novel Before the Time Machine featured a modern historian, a young Wells, and the conversations they have across time and space. Lisa also writes Victorian and cozy mysteries under her own imprint at https://grousablebooks.com.

Erin Fetterly is a historian, researcher, and writer from Ontario, Canada. She is currently doing her PhD with Birkbeck, University of London where she also received her MA in British history. She published her first book “Women Who Kill: A History of Britain’s Most Dangerous Women” with Pen and Sword Books in 2024 and in June of this year it won the True Crime Awards Reader’s Choice book of the Year. Her interests are focused primarily on Britain and include women’s history and the histories of knowledge, writing, medicine, science and crime. Check out more engaging and exciting history on her Instagram @thecanadianlondoner.

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