Clare Jackson is a historian fascinated by the rich and complex history of Stuart Britain and its Continental neighbours and global diaspora. She is currently Walter Scott Fellow in History and Senior Tutor at Trinity Hall, although will be stepping down from the latter at the end of August. She has presented a number of highly successful television programmes for the BBC, including The Stuarts (2014) and The Stuarts in Exile (2015) which are regularly repeated on the BBC, PBS, LondonLive and other channels. She is the author of Charles II: The Star King (Allen Lane, 2016) in the ‘Penguin Monarchs’ series and of Devil-Land. England under Siege 1588-1688 (Allen Lane, 2021). Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2022, Devil-Land was selected as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ by The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman and The Sydney Morning Herald and appeared first in the Wall Street Journal’s recommendations for ‘Holiday Gift Books 2021’.